NBC News faces significant layoffs amid restructuring and budget cuts, affecting diversity teams.
Welp. Seems to be going around.
I had just finished reading a Xweet about Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought’s plans during the Schumer Shutdown for trimming the fat. He was a guest on the Charlie Kirk Show, and outlined what he had in mind and why when asked ‘How many are we talking?’
BREAKING: The GRIM REAPER has been released!
Russ Vought just confirmed the Democrats WORST NIGHTMARE is happening. There will be THOUSANDS more bureaucrats fired!
I LOVE the Schumer Shutdown! pic.twitter.com/iEEd6wI0z0— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 15, 2025
He said the snapshot number was 4000, but he felt it was ‘going to be much higher.’
That’ll put a dent in government payrolls.
And then I saw this sad little Xweet I guess I’d missed this morning.
Significant layoffs underway today at NBC News. big round of layoffs coming this quarter at CBS News. Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) October 15, 2025
CBS, too? Ah. Part of the Bari Weiss acquisition and Paramount thing, no doubt.
But, for sure, I was curious where the slicing and dicing was happening at NBC as it carves itself asunder from the whackjobs at MSNBC. At long last, cutting that umbilical cord, if you will, which had for so long tethered the looniest chicks of the Left to the mother hen ship.
There had been some initial snipping around the edges last month. The mood took a grim turn.
.Late last month, fewer than a dozen employees in NBC’s graphics department — which had supported both MSNBC and NBC News — were laid off as part of an early reorganization ahead of the Versant split.
That move, also first reported by Status, was described internally as the “first casualties” of the divorce between NBC News and its cable counterparts.
Last week, NBC News began a legally required “consultation phase” in its London bureau, the first step toward layoffs there. The move was widely interpreted by employees as a sign of deeper cuts ahead.
Inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the mood has darkened. Several insiders told Status that speculation about who will be affected has dominated internal chats for days.
NBC News has been trimming around the edges in anticipation of the deeper cuts, insiders told Status, but the network’s workforce will need to shrink substantially now that it will no longer provide shared resources to MSNBC and CNBC.
