“Marketplace” staffers were displeased last week by layoffs at the financial news organization, and grew increasingly angry after a series of internal comments and communications that even the company’s management later said it regretted, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor.
Tani reports, “Last week, the business-focused public radio outlet Marketplace announced that it was shedding some staff.
“Employees at the Los Angeles-based public media org were initially annoyed after its leadership announced the cuts and a new strategy in a LinkedIn post and in the press. But they grew even more frustrated following what some said were tone-deaf comments in a meeting last week by the CEO of Marketplace’s parent company, American Public Media Group.
“During a meeting last week, APM Group CEO Jean Taylor seemed to jump between affirmative language about the organization and dark topics, including the need to reorganize and restructure staff.”
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