LinkedIn news editor Jessy Bains was among the layoffs this week.
“After covering the ups and downs of the job market over the past couple of years, it’s certainly a strange feeling being on the other side,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “But layoffs are a part of life, especially in tech and journalism these days.”
Bains has been at LinkedIn for the past two years. Before that, he was a reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada,
Prior to joining Yahoo Finance, Bains was at CBC, where he was the lead writer for “On The Money with Peter Armstrong,” a national business TV show in Canada. He has also previously produced live business hits for CBC News.
Bains has a B.A. from Brock University.
