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Layoffscurated sourcedetected 2026-05-29 · confidence 95%

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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

The leadership read

Workforce moves like this mark the contracting side of the sector hiring conditions.

Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 107.9 (Hot) (up 2.4 month-on-month), Americas is at rising (+15.4pts) on signal share.

Sports Illustrated: 1 signal in the last 90 days.

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