NBC News Cuts 7% to 8% of Staff, or 100 to 150 Positions

NBC News plans to lay off about 100 to 150 staffers, according to a person familiar with the matter, as it deals with sagging media-industry economics and the looming spin-off of NBCUniversal’s CNBC and MSNBC into the new publicly-traded company Versant. Affected employees were expected to be notified Wednesday, this person said. Not all the […]