Merida told more than 550 Times employees that the paper was facing a budget hole of 'tens of millions of dollars.' Angry staff members protested cuts to the newsroom.
The veteran journalist said when naysayers would offer him reasons why he should pass on the job, it only made him more eager to come to The Times: ‘I think we’ll shock the world.’Members of the newsroom union, Los Angeles Times Guild, already frustrated by the lack of progress in negotiating a new labor agreement to replace the one that expired in November, said they felt betrayed that management opted for layoffs before first offering buyouts to encourage staff members to voluntarily depart.
The departures include 34 white people and 39 people of color: 19 Latino people, 11 Asian American people, four Black people and five employees who identify as two or more races. He spent more than two decades as a respected reporter then senior editor at the Washington Post, which he grew up reading as a youth in Maryland.
“No one from the masthead?” asked investigative reporter Matt Hamilton. “The masthead is the biggest that it’s been since I worked here.” Merida responded that not all copy editors or news desk or audience team members were cut, and that there would still be people filling those roles.
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