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Sports Illustrated: Layoffs
Sports Illustrated laid off multiple prominent writers including Stephanie Apstein, Tyler Lauletta, Kyle Koster, Mike McDaniel, Greg Bishop, and Michael Rosenberg as part of ongoing organizational cuts. This represents another round of staff reductions at the struggling media brand.
Source: Awful Announcing
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Workforce moves like this mark the contracting side of the sector hiring conditions.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 98.6 (Neutral) (down 1.4 month-on-month), Americas is at easing (-2.6pts) on signal share.
Sports Illustrated: 1 signal in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow.
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