HuffPost is due to eliminate 30 editorial roles in the coming weeks, editor-in-chief Danielle C. Belton announced in a company email Tuesday.
Citing “growing challenges to our business,” the impacted staffers will be alerted “in the weeks ahead,” she wrote in a memo shared to social media by New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin.
“I write with painful news,” the memo began. “HuffPost is undergoing a substantial round of job eliminations due to ongoing and growing challenges to our business.”
Belton went on to say that she is in contact with the HuffPost Union “about how to proceed, including the possibility of offering buyout packages to some desks in the newsroom.