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Progressive news site HuffPost plans to lay off 30 columnists this year, according to reports.
“I write with some painful news,” said the note sent by HuffPost editor-in-chief Danielle C. Belton. “HuffPost is undergoing a significant round of job cuts due to the ongoing and growing challenges our business faces.”
The email, shared with the New York Times reporter Ben Mullinrevealed that HuffPost is communicating with the HuffPost Union on how best to proceed.
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The New York Post reported that liberal media outlet HuffPost will lay off nearly 23 percent of its editorial staff in the coming weeks. (Getty/Getty Images)
Offers to employees may include “voluntary buyout packages of certain newsroom offices.”
“I recognize that this is an overwhelming way to start the year, and we will be sure to share more details as quickly and clearly as possible, as I think it is important to be transparent and share information such as we have them,” Belton wrote. . “In the coming days, we will release more information about HuffPost’s job cuts and plans for 2025 and beyond.”
HuffPost has approximately 132 editorial staff. With the upcoming job cuts, it would lose about 23 percent of its editorial staff.
Other major media outlets have cut – or plan to cut – significant portions of their staff. Just this week, the Washington Post laid off nearly 100 employees in its commercial divisions – which represent 4 percent of its entire workforce.
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HuffPost’s announcement of the upcoming layoffs follows the Washington Post’s announcement of a 4 percent reduction in its workforce. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The cuts follow a difficult year for the paper that resulted in the loss of at least 250,000 subscribers and the resignations of several prominent members of the Post following owner Jeff Bezos’ decision that the Post not to approve a candidate for the 2024 presidential election.
A CNN staffer told Fox News Digital in November that the cable news channel planned to implement job cuts by Marchwhich they say will be “very significant” for the company. “This is a time of complete and total economic model overhaul and chaos. Extremely difficult, even in the best of circumstances,” they said.
HuffPost did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn and Brian Flood of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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