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ESPN announces 300 layoffs, citing 'disruption' amid virus - Black News Channel

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer ESPN announced Thursday it is laying off about 300 employees and cutting about 500 jobs from its global workforce. The cuts amount to about 10% of the employees at the sports network and are due largely to the impact of the pandemic on its business and the 'tremendous disruption in how fans consume sports.' 'In the short term, we enacted various steps like executive and talent salary reductions, furloughs and budget cuts, and we implemented innovative operations and production approaches, all in an effort to weather the COVID storm,' Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN's chairman, wrote […]

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