Travel news site Skift has laid off eight staffers

Travel industry news site Skift has laid off eight employees, including one editorial staffer, our of more than 90 employees.

“Skift has initiated a small restructuring to better align our resources with our strategic goals for 2025 and beyond,” said CEO and founder Rafat Ali in a message. “We remain profitable with double digit growth and are committed to smarter, sustainable and exceptional journalism for the year ahead.”

Skift provides news, research, events, and creative services to key stakeholders globally in the travel industry.

Ali started Skift in December 2011.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.