Paramount offered voluntary buyouts across TV newsrooms and broader staff, reportedly offering 8 weeks of severance amid workforce reduction efforts.

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        "excerpt": "Honestly, this post feels like I wrote it. The Skydance folks did this last year around this time with CBS/CBS News, and two rounds of layoffs later, it’s like what else are they going to cut unless they plan to merge CNN and CBS News or something?\n\n Basically every move the Bari Weiss era has been a bust in ratings and morale. She’s pretty much physically non-existent in the newsroom compared to",
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        "excerpt": "I truly don’t mean to sound callous but if you work in the news business and have not given thought to what’s next/what if/plan B then you need to start.\nDitto if you work for Paramount/WBD - the cost cutting is coming and it won’t be done with a scalpel.",
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        "excerpt": "What are they offering severance wise? How's your debt situation? Ever wanted to be a pirate or anything?",
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        "excerpt": "hi I’m 26 and at paramount and we all got the email as well - we also think it’s aimed more at WFH folks because the first round of buyouts/layoffs (a year ago today) was targeting the same.\n\n I started thinking about my plan b a few months ago. I’m currently taking phlebotomy courses on the side as a back up plan. I just took a job as an AP on a network show… terrified it’ll get cut before I can",
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        "excerpt": "If you didn't see this coming, you need to pay more attention. The company now has huge debt. The cutbacks will continue. I would wait until you are laid off. The job market is not great right now.",
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