HuffPost employees, after a year of working through a pandemic that isn't over, were invited to a meeting today with the password "spring is here," where they were told 47 of them would be laid off. They would only know if they still had a job if they didn't receive an email by 1

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) March 9, 2021

That is cruel and psychotic and ridiculous.

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) March 9, 2021

Layoffs hitting HuffPost today, weeks after it was acquired by BuzzFeed:
– 47 staffers in the US
– exec editor Hillary Frey and international exec editor Louise Roug have decided to leave
– closing HuffPost Canada
– consultations on slimming down UK/ Aus https://t.co/70g5YfAxWM

— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) March 9, 2021

i'm absolutely shaking with rage – this is a bloodbath and we've been at buzzfeed for less than a month. we don't even have an EIC yet. there was no effort to work with the union to avoid/mitigate job loss during a pandemic https://t.co/W2XkVc11J3

— Jessica Schulberg (@jessicaschulb) March 9, 2021

Luke is the one of the bravest reporters I've ever met and I'm so honored I got to work with him.

Hire him and he'll get you results. https://t.co/fKFv2VrqIB

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) March 9, 2021

HuffPo lost a gem in @lukeobrien, when I was first getting my bearings around journalists, Luke took me to a gross bar in DC and introduced me to a hacker. I learned more in that evening than I ever did in grad school about how the news is made. https://t.co/gtTlt6KUok

— Joan Donovan, PhD