The BBC has told staff it plans to cut about 2,000 jobs, equating to around one in ten staff members.
CBS News previously said it would lay off about 66 people, or 6% of its staff, including via the closure of CBS News Radio.
Meanwhile in February The Washington Post proposed to cut hundreds of staff, amounting to one-third across the business, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said it would cut about 50 jobs, or 15% of staff.
Politico started 2026 by cutting 3% of staff and Future plc proposed to cut 45 editorial staff at its tech titles including Tom’s Guide and Techradar, although it is also creating 15 new roles.
Meanwhile, ABC News is allegedly to cut around 12 jobs amid parent company Disney’s mass layoffs of 1,000 staff, and the BBC is reportedly laying off around up to 2,000 staff, with BBC News numbers unknown.
Other layoffs so far this year have taken place at the Wall Street Journal, Vox Media and Bustle Digital Group.
Press Gazette’s page for rolling updates on journalism industry redundancies and layoffs in 2026 will be kept updated throughout the year.
In 2025, we found at least 3,434 journalism job cuts in the UK and US.
In 2024, the tally was at least 3,875 and in 2023 it was about 6,000.
Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked
April 2026 journalism job cuts
Conde Nast – At least 16 people
20 April: Sixteen unionised employees have reportedly been laid off at Conde Nast amid changes and closures at several of its magazine brands.
Health and wellness title Self magazine, already online only, is being closed as a standalone brand with its content merged into other brands such as Allure and Glamour.
Chief executive Roger Lynch said that “as audience behaviours shift, we have not seen a path for Self to continue in its current form as a digital publication”.
Glamour’s operations in Germany, Spain and Mexico are being wound down.
Lynch also said: “For Glamour, we will concentrate our efforts in the US and UK, where we see the strongest opportunities. As part of this new strategy, we will focus on fashion and beauty recommendations, and prioritise social, video, commerce, and licensing opportunities. To do this, our teams in those markets will be reorganised.”
Wired in Italy is also closing down. Lynch said: “While Wired remains a strong global brand, the Italian edition has not kept pace with growth in our other markets, including the US, UK, Middle East, Japan and Mexico.”
Lynch said Wired in Italy, Self and the affected Glamour markets “represent a little over 1% of our overall revenue. They also remain unprofitable, and continuing to operate them in their current form limits our ability to invest in the ideas and areas that will drive future growth.”
Status reported that 16 unionised employees were being laid off across multiple brands.
Bauer Media Group – Unknown
17 April: Bauer will make job cuts as part of a major restructure of its digital businesses in the UK and Germany.
The closure of its digital business in Germany, Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG, on 30 September will affect 160 employees. The intention is that any vacancies within Bauer Media Group will mainly be filled with affected Bauer Xcel Media employees.
In the UK, Bauer is proposing a restructure of its digital publishing business with jobs at risk. A consultation process has begun.
Digiday reported that the cuts could affect up to 30% of all Bauer’s publishing staff.
Read the full Press Gazette story here.
Daily Mail – Up to nine people
17 April: Press Gazette understands single-digit job losses are expected across the Daily Mail TV and showbiz teams.
A 30-day consultation is currently underway.
The Standard – 36 people
16 April: Thirty-six people have left The Standard following a deal being struck for The Independent to take over the running of its website and its print advertising operation.
There were no compulsory redundancies.
Press Gazette understands that out of 75 total Standard staff at the start of year, 36 left the business, 23 have transferred over to Independent Media and 16 remain to work on the weekly print edition.
Read the full Press Gazette story here.
BBC – Up to 2,000 people
15 April: The BBC is expected to cut between 1,800 and 2,000 jobs – around one in ten – in its biggest downsizing in 15 years.
Staff were informed on a company call where savings were addressed. It is not known how many are affected from BBC News versus other parts of the organisation.
But interim chief executive of BBC News Jonathan Munro told staff “that the scale of this change will mean that all areas of BBC News are affected in one way or another”.
One staff member who was on the call told PA: “I mean, it was savage. They have not outlined how or where these jobs will be cut and it’s just caused huge panic.
“One in every ten will lose their job which is awful. It’s a touch Hunger Games where we have dialled in to be told you’re going to have to fight for your jobs or you’re going to have to put someone up to be sacrificed.
“Nobody really knows who’s going and we’re asking the bosses but they don’t know either.
“Talk about getting bad news before the new DG [director-general] starts. It will be one of the first things the new DG has to deal with – staff in full revolt and a Government who aren’t impressed by the BBC’s lack of warmth to it.”
The cuts are part of a £600m cost-cutting plan over three years to combat a decline in licence fee income, announced in February. The BBC is negotiating with the Government about its future and the licence fee ahead of the renewal of its Royal Charter at the end of 2027.
Other cost-cutting measures outlined to staff include restricting travel, attending external events, controls on recruitment and commissioning freelances, according to the NUJ.
Interim director-general Rhodri Talfan Davies, who led the all-staff meeting, will head the corporation until former Google executive Matt Brittin takes over on 18 May.
He told staff: “All of this needs to be done with real care – for our audiences and, of course, for all of you.
“I know this is challenging news, and we’ll need to work closely together to build our plans.
“My commitment to you is that we’ll do everything possible to try to reduce the strain and uncertainty that change of this kind brings.”
The BBC said: “Over the last three years we have delivered more than a half a billion pounds worth of savings, much of which we’ve been able to reinvest into our output across the BBC.
“In a rapidly changing media market, we continue to face substantial financial pressures. As a result we expect to make further savings over the next three years of around 10% of our costs. This is about the BBC becoming more productive and prioritising our offer to audiences to ensure we’re providing the best value for money, both now and in the future.”
Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary, said: “Plans for more brutal job cuts are wrong, damaging and will cause uncertainty and distress for workers at the BBC.
“Previous rounds of cuts have led to reduced programming, loss of experience, unmanageable workloads, fewer opportunities and have significantly hit staff morale. These cuts severely undermine the BBC’s ability to fulfil its purposes: providing quality journalism and programming that informs, educates, and entertains.
“Plans for further cuts follow years of real-terms budget reductions and relentless cost-saving measures which have impacted core parts of the corporation. This can’t go on. The BBC cannot provide quality journalism without the talented and experienced workers who make it possible.”
ABC News – Around 12 people
15 April: ABC News is reportedly expected to cut around a dozen staffers amid broader layoffs at its parent company Disney.
Around 1,000 people at Disney are expected to be laid off as the company’s new chief executive, Josh D’Amaro announced in an email to employees on 14 April. The cuts are part of an attempt to streamline the company’s operations.
The cuts will fall on the marketing group, which was reorganised in January, and other parts of the company, including its studio and television business, ESPN, products and technology and certain corporate functions.
Associated Press – Unknown
7 April: The Associated Press is offering an unspecified number of voluntary buyouts to journalists in the US.
More than 120 News Media Guild members received the buyout offers.
The AP said the changes were part of its pivot away from its previous reliance on licensing to US print newspapers, towards new revenue sources following several high-profile contracts coming to an end.
Julie Pace, executive editor and senior vice president of the AP, said the goal is to reduce the global staff number by less than 5%.
Pace said: “The AP is not in trouble. We’re making these changes from a position of strength but we’re doing so now to recognise our changing customer base.” Customers now include major tech companies like OpenAI and Google.
March 2026 journalism job cuts
The Ringer – Up to six people
24 March: Up to six editorial staffers from sports and pop culture website and podcast network The Ringer are believed to have been laid off.
Those affected include culture writer Miles Surrey and special projects lead Andrew Gruttadaro, while The Ringer’s podcast New York, New York With John Jastremski is ending.
The Ringer is owned by Spotify, which also made layoffs in its Spotify Studios division.
Pink News – Four people
23 March: LGBTQ+ publisher Pink News has put the jobs of its four website reporters at risk.
Senior reporter Sophie Perry wrote on Bluesky that she had been made redundant, adding: “In my redundancy consultation, I was told the brand is ‘moving away from having a reporter-led newsroom’. How can they make journalism without journalists? I have no clue either.”
Chief operating officer Anthony James told Press Gazette: “Pink News is evolving how we produce and publish content – not what we produce.
“Our focus as a publisher remains the same, and our team of over 25 journalists and producers will continue to deliver the news, pop culture and entertainment content our audiences expect across video, social and written formats.
“The changes underway are structural: improving coordination across teams and reducing duplication in how content is produced and published, so that our total output is better integrated across the business.
“This includes a proposed restructuring of four roles within our website editorial team. Consultation on that proposal is ongoing.”
Read the full Press Gazette story here.
CBS News – Around 66 people
20 March: CBS News is laying off 6% of staff, amounting to around 66 people.
The plan includes the closure of CBS News Radio, which provides content for around 700 affiliate stations across the US, on 22 May after almost 100 years. All radio staff will lose their jobs.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski told staff in a memo: “It’s no secret that the news business is changing radically, and that we need to change along with it.
“New audiences are burgeoning in new places, and we are pressing forward with ambitious plans to grow and invest so that we can be there for them.
“This means some parts of our newsroom must get smaller to make room for the things we must build to remain competitive.”
In a separate note they said of the CBS News Radio closure: “While this was a necessary decision, it was not an easy one. A shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service.”
It is the second round of layoffs at CBS News (excluding separate voluntary buyouts) since the network’s $150m acquisition of Weiss-led The Free Press. Almost 100 jobs were cut at CBS News in October with areas affected including the feature programme Saturday Morning, a unit dedicated to covering race and culture, the climate team (four jobs gone out of six), the closure of the Johannesburg bureau, and the end of streaming shows CBS Evening News Plus and CBS Mornings Plus.
The Observer – Around 25 people
20 March: The Observer has reportedly offered voluntary redundancy to its entire workforce of 140 staff, just under a year after Tortoise took ownership of the newspaper.
The Telegraph reported that cuts could later become compulsory.
Co-chief executive Richard Furness said: “As we come towards the end of our first year of owning The Observer, we are proud to be growing: more paying customers, a bigger audience and increasing revenues.
“As with all media businesses, we want to keep investing in the future of The Observer and that obviously involves change.”
Update: The Telegraph has reported around 25 people are expected to leave The Observer as a result of the voluntary redundancy offer.
Axios – 11 people
17 March: Axios has cut 11 roles from its newsroom, as first reported by New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin. Staffers on Axios’ news desk, visuals and social teams, part of its national and local sections, have been laid off.
“Moments like today are tough, but we want to navigate them with grace, empathy and honesty,” Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston wrote in a memo to staff shared by NYT, adding the goal is to “build a newsroom of the future, tightly focused on subject matter experts and local expansion”.
“We’re continuing to hire and grow, and see a growing hunger for what sets Axios apart – passionate, trusted experts… distinctive, useful, efficient journalism… and in-person human connection,” he wrote.
As part of the newsroom’s “evolution,” Johnston said the company was also “starting to see how AI can help us automate some tasks to focus humans on our most consequential work”, but the company will “focus our energy where human journalists win”.
Ladbible – Around 12 people
11 March: Ladbible Group is cutting around 12 staff on its social video team based in Manchester, according to Digiday. The move reportedly follows layoffs of around ten London-based staff from the social video team in autumn 2025.
Four sources confirmed the layoffs to Digiday, with senior staff on the social video team not affected. Those impacted are said to be video editors, channel managers and social editors, with the overall size of the social video team unconfirmed.
A Ladbible Group spokesperson confirmed the company is cutting UK staffers, but declined to comment on the number or types of roles impacted.
The company is “evolving parts of our operating model to position the business for the next phase of growth”, said Solly Solomou, CEO of Ladbible Group, in a statement provided to Digiday.
“Our strategy is increasingly focused on building scalable brand-led IP, deepening creator partnerships and investing in areas where we have greater control over distribution and long-term value creation.”
Iconic Media – Up to 17 jobs
2 March: Iconic Media (formerly National World) has placed 17 roles at risk of redundancy as it plans to close its London World and Bristol World websites, as first reported by Hold The Front Page.
The changes are part of a shake-up, almost a year on from the publisher’s takeover by Media Concierge, which will see a move back towards local journalists and offices so they are “embedded in the places they serve”.
There is expected to be a net increase of 40 to 50 roles once the changes have been implemented.
Chief publishing officer Martin Little said in a memo, reported by HTFP: “We will simplify our editorial structure by reducing duplication, resizing teams where appropriate and removing roles that are no longer required under the new model.
“At the same time, we will prioritise building capacity in our local newsrooms, ensuring resources are focused where they have the greatest impact for our audiences and our brands.”
February 2026 journalism job cuts
CNBC – Almost 12 people
27 February: CNBC is restructuring its newsroom to bring its TV and digital operations together, Reuters first reported.
The changes will result in nearly a dozen layoffs including the website’s managing editor.
But a CNBC spokesperson said they “expect to hire more than 40 new editorial roles over the next year across TV, digital, and direct-to-consumer platforms”.
They also said: “The changes made today are to align CNBC’s newsroom structure for the future, they are not driven by cost cutting.”
A paywall is expected to be added to the CNBC website.
Nexstar Media Group – At least 27 people
24 February: Layoffs have been made to on-air TV news anchors and other staff at Nexstar Media Group in recent weeks, according to multiple reports.
Los Angeles Times said “several on-air veterans” had been cut at KTLA in the city, that at least three on-air positions at New York’s WPIX have been eliminated and that 21 people at Chicago’s WGN have been cut in recent weeks including nine reporters and anchors.
The Chicago Tribune reported that WGN weekend morning anchor Sean Lewis said: “A lot of really good people lost their jobs today, and it’s a shame.”
WGN also made six news writers and three technical director positions redundant last month.
A Nexstar spokesperson said they were “taking steps necessary to compete effectively in this period of unprecedented change”.
New York Daily News – More than six people
13 February: The News Guild of New York has said 28% of its members at the Alden Global Capital-owned New York Daily News are being laid off.
The union said the cuts primarily impact the print production team, following the rollout of “generic fonts” in the paper, and the national desk, which is losing “six of its ten reporters”.
The Journalist’s Resource – Two people
13 February: The editor-in-chief and managing editor of The Journalist’s Resource are being laid off after several philanthropic funders chose not to renew their grants.
The outlet is run by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Editor-in-chief Carmen Nobel said: “The Journalist’s Resource will continue, at a smaller scale. Clark Merrefield, senior editor of economics and legal systems, will continue to produce evidence-based pieces and webinars for JR. He’ll report to Nancy Gibbs, director of the Shorenstein Center and former editor-in-chief of TIME.”
MLB.com – Unknown number
5 February: A small number of journalists have been laid off by MLB.com, the official site of Major League Baseball.
Journalist John Denton, who covered the St. Louis Cardinals, announced on X: “The media business is a tough one, but journalists still sign up for it everyday. Today is a rough one as I — and a few other colleagues — were informed by MLB that we were being laid off, effective immediately.”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 50 people
5 February: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is laying off about 50 people from its newsroom and other parts of the business, equating to about 15% of staff. About half of the cuts will come from the newsroom.
The Cox Enterprises-owned title closed its print edition at the end of 2025 after 157 years but said it had more than 100,000 digital subscribers.
President and publisher Andrew Morse said: “We’ve made these difficult decisions because we believe they will best position us to continue to accelerate the AJC’s growth.
“We have invested heavily in our editorial, product and business teams over the last three years, and we’ve seen direct results from that investment.” Editorial investment has included video, business, high school sports and politics coverage.
He added: “As we grow, we must be agile and ensure we are devoting resources where they will have the most impact for our audience.
“While these changes are difficult on a personal level, they will best position the AJC to continue delivering journalism worth paying for.”
The Washington Post – More than 300 people
4 February: The Washington Post is cutting one-third of all staff across the company including more than 300 of about 800 journalists in the newsroom.
The title is closing its sports and books departments and vastly cutting back the number of correspondents it has posted outside the US including in the Middle East and Ukraine.
The Washington-area Metro news department and editing staff face a restructure and the daily Post Reports podcast is being suspended.
Areas that will remain a focus for the title include politics, national affairs, national security, science, health, technology, climate, business, wellness, culture and investigations.
Executive editor Matt Murray told staff: “We have concluded that the company’s structure is too rooted in a different era, when we were a dominant, local print product. This restructure will help to secure our future in service of our journalistic mission and provide us stability moving forward.”
Read the full Press Gazette story (including Murray’s full memo to staff) here.
The Sun – Around 12 people
4 February: Jobs have been put at risk at The Sun as it proposes to merge its features team with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle desk.
In an email, seen by Press Gazette, Sun editor-in-chief Victoria Newton said: “We need to future-proof the business, diversify revenue streams and meet the challenges facing all modern publishers, and I’m confident that this new proposed structure will unlock even more potential in the newsroom.”
Read the full Press Gazette story here.
Update: Private Eye has reported that about a dozen role are expected to be lost.
BBC – Up to 14 roles
3 February: The BBC is proposing to close a unit dedicated to investigative journalism in the English regions less than four years after it was set up.
The BBC has also proposed to close six deputy managing editor roles in BBC Local.
The proposals have put 14 jobs at risk, although several roles are being created and the BBC hopes to avoid compulsory redundancies.
January 2026 journalism job cuts
CBS News – Unspecified number
29 January: CBS News is reportedly seeking an unknown number of voluntary buyouts from staff at CBS Evening News.
Guardian US media reporter Jeremy Barr reported that Evening News staff received an email stating: “The Evening News has a new host and a new direction, and there will be more change coming. We hope you are excited about this vision, but we understand that some of you may not be, and we want to provide support. As such, we are offering an extraordinary chance to leave CBS News with an enhanced separation payment.”
BBC – Four people
28 January: The BBC is reportedly closing BBC Trending, which publishes “original investigations and insights about the online world”.
Deadline reported the closure is expected to result in around four job losses.
Recent BBC Trending articles have included an investigation with BBC News Ukrainian into young people being recruited by Russia to attack their own country.
Context – Up to a dozen people
27 January: Thomson Reuters Foundation is proposing to close most of its news operation Context News in February.
The Baron, which reports on news relating to Reuters, said about a dozen journalists working for Context News were told about the decision.
It reported that Context News has seven journalists in overseas bureaux with the rest in London, as well as eight contractors. It said the journalists would be made redundant or redeployed where possible.
Three journalists will be kept on until the end of 2027 to work on a project funded by one donor, The Baron reported.
A spokesperson confirmed there was a “strategic reorganisation”, adding: “As part of these proposals, which would realign our services to deliver maximum value to the communities we serve, some Context staff are impacted.
“We believe these proposed changes would maximise our impact as a non-profit organisation to best meet the evolving and urgent needs of the communities with whom we work, at a time when our mission has never been more critical, and the international development sector faces huge challenges.”
Future – 45 people
26 January: Future plc has proposed to make 45 editorial redundancies at its technology titles including Tom’s Guide and Techradar.
Some 15 new roles are being created, making a net reduction in roles of 30.
A Future spokesperson told Press Gazette: “We have made the difficult decision to reduce headcount in certain areas of the business to enable greater focus on future growth areas.”
Read the full Press Gazette story here.
Vox Media – At least eight people
17 January: The Vox Media Union has said eight of its unionised employees (plus others) have been laid off.
The union said those affected were “three in-unit workers from Pop Sugar, two from The Verge, and three from Eater – not including a number of out-of-unit employees”. One of those affected was The Verge’s video game reporter Ash Parrish.
In a statement, the union criticised the company, saying it has “laid off workers at an average of once per quarter in the last year”.
Press Gazette is aware of at least 37 job cuts at Vox Media in 2025 – plus more than 20 that came as a result of its sale of video game site Polygon.
Bustle Digital Group – Three people
17 January – Bustle Digital Group has laid off three people as it moves away from gaming content on “superfan” website Inverse, with a fourth also deciding to leave as a result.
Video game trends writer Hayes Madsen wrote on Bluesky: “Inverse’s Gaming section is being shut down as the company ‘divests’ from gaming content. I’m out of a job along with my wonderful co-writers.”
Gaming writer Robin Bea said: “Inverse has decided to ‘divest from gaming content’ so I’m out of a job again!”
Deputy gaming editor Shannon Liao also confirmed she was “just laid off from Inverse”.
A fourth gaming journalist, Trone Dowd, was initially told he “still ha[s] a job with Inverse, though my role will be changing significantly in the weeks to come”. But he later said: “Today I decided to part ways with Inverse. I was offered an opportunity to stay. But without a plan for traditional games coverage going forward, now seems as good a time as ever to bet on myself and explore what else the future may hold.”
A former Inverse writer told Aftermath: “Management had been really telling us the last few months that numbers have been rebounding. But Inverse has always kind of been the black sheep of BDG, because we were so different from all of their other brands. Personally, I’ve always gotten the sense they just didn’t really know what to do with us, despite our numbers justifying our existence.”
Wall Street Journal – At least six people
15 January: The Wall Street Journal is carrying out a “strategic restructure” of its features and weekend teams.
WSJ editor-in-chief Emma Tucker said the title is continuing to shift from being a “print-centric organisation to a more nimble, topic-driven structure designed to serve our readers wherever they engage with us – across the site, the app, our four weekly newsprint sections and WSJ. Magazine”.
A new features team will be led by WSJ Magazine editor-in-chief Sarah Ball and will produce the four weekly sections: Mansion, Exchange, Off Duty and Review as well as Sports.
Tucker added: “Inevitably, a restructure of this scale means saying goodbye to valued friends and colleagues. I want to thank all of those departing for their dedication to the Journal.
“These newsroom changes build on our audience-first strategy. By breaking down the legacy silos of physical print sections, we are empowering our editors to produce ‘platform-agnostic’ journalism that delights and surprises our readers every day of the week.”
Update: The Status media newsletter has since reported at least six layoffs were made.
Politico – Less than 30 people
14 January: Politico has cut 3% of staff, affecting about ten people in its newsroom according to The Wrap. Semafor reported that Politico has a total global staff of around 750 people.
Editor-in-chief John Harris told staff in a memo, published by Semafor media reporter Max Tani, that to prosper in the years ahead news organisations need “a strong sense of who they are and how they deliver distinctive value to their audiences.
“Changes I believe are necessary for Politico to remain in that elite group involve a small number of separations, under generous terms, with journalists I respect and who have my gratitude for the significant contributions they have made to this place.”
Harris said Politico was also offering voluntary separation packages to the energy and E&E News teams which are merging, Politico Magazine, the central editing desk, the visuals, data and graphics team, and the interactives team.
Enterprise reporting for Politico Magazine will become part of the wider newsroom while visual journalists will be “brought into the centre of our news infrastructure”.
He said the buyout offers “are designed to give eligible colleagues a chance to reflect carefully on whether they want to remain here on teams with new structures and new mandates; they are not designed as a cost-cutting measure”.
Harris went on to say that the changes being made were “aimed at making this newsroom – especially our leadership structure, our workflow, and our news report – more tightly aligned to the publication’s strategy over the next several years. This is the only way we will have the resources to grow and respond to evolving audience needs.”
Separately Harris has been appointed chairman and a successor as editor-in-chief will be appointed this year.
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