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Title: NBC News layoffs end its reporting team for LGBTQ+ focused news...
Post by: Jessica_Rose on October 16, 2025, 10:45:11 AM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on October 16, 2025, 10:45:11 AM
NBC News layoffs end its reporting team for LGBTQ+ focused news vertical NBC Out
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/nbc-news-layoffs-end-its-reporting-team-for-lgbtq-focused-news-vertical-nbc-out/
John Russell (16 Oct 2025)
NBC News is eliminating its reporting teams specifically dedicated to covering issues affecting marginalized groups, including the LGBTQ+ community.
As The Wrap first reported, during a Wednesday staff meeting, NBC News' executive vice president of editorial, Catherine Kim, announced a new round of layoffs affecting 150 staffers across the network's entire news operation. Two sources told the outlet that the teams behind the NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC Out verticals would be eliminated as part of the broader restructuring.
The verticals will live on, however. According to The Advocate, NBC News confirmed that NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC Out will continue publishing relevant stories drawn from the network's wider newsroom. One source told The Wrap that the network may retain up to five staffers in its newsroom to contribute to the verticals, while former members of the teams are being reassigned to other editorial roles, according to a source.
But GLAAD chief communications officer Rich Ferraro told The Advocate that the elimination of the NBC Out team is "part of a dangerous pattern of mainstream media outlets choosing to lose trusted and talented journalists who focus on important LGBTQ news that otherwise is under-reported or not reported at all."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/nbc-news-layoffs-end-its-reporting-team-for-lgbtq-focused-news-vertical-nbc-out/
John Russell (16 Oct 2025)
NBC News is eliminating its reporting teams specifically dedicated to covering issues affecting marginalized groups, including the LGBTQ+ community.
As The Wrap first reported, during a Wednesday staff meeting, NBC News' executive vice president of editorial, Catherine Kim, announced a new round of layoffs affecting 150 staffers across the network's entire news operation. Two sources told the outlet that the teams behind the NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC Out verticals would be eliminated as part of the broader restructuring.
The verticals will live on, however. According to The Advocate, NBC News confirmed that NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC Out will continue publishing relevant stories drawn from the network's wider newsroom. One source told The Wrap that the network may retain up to five staffers in its newsroom to contribute to the verticals, while former members of the teams are being reassigned to other editorial roles, according to a source.
But GLAAD chief communications officer Rich Ferraro told The Advocate that the elimination of the NBC Out team is "part of a dangerous pattern of mainstream media outlets choosing to lose trusted and talented journalists who focus on important LGBTQ news that otherwise is under-reported or not reported at all."
Title: Re: NBC News layoffs end its reporting team for LGBTQ+ focused news...
Post by: Lori Dee on October 16, 2025, 10:55:56 AM
Post by: Lori Dee on October 16, 2025, 10:55:56 AM
A common tactic in the Propaganda Wars is to control the narrative.
When you control what is being said, you control the direction of the minds of the masses. Then rewriting history to suit your perspective becomes easier due to less dissent.
We have already seen the press targeted with sanctions, removed from access to the White House and the Pentagon, and directives issued to National Parks and National Monuments (like the Smithsonian Institute), all in the spirit of controlling the narrative and retelling history from a specific point of view.
This is what dictators do. This is what authoritarianism looks like.
When you control what is being said, you control the direction of the minds of the masses. Then rewriting history to suit your perspective becomes easier due to less dissent.
We have already seen the press targeted with sanctions, removed from access to the White House and the Pentagon, and directives issued to National Parks and National Monuments (like the Smithsonian Institute), all in the spirit of controlling the narrative and retelling history from a specific point of view.
This is what dictators do. This is what authoritarianism looks like.