Variety lays off three from newsroom, including deputy editor

Meredith Woerner

Variety laid off three staffers from the newsroom, including deputy editor Meredith Woerner.

Jacob Bryant of The Wrap writes, “Representatives for Penske Media Corporation, the legacy trade publication’s parent company, declined comment for this report.

“Woerner announced her departure from company on Thursday via X, sharing that after seven years, her last day was Wednesday.

“‘Yesterday was my last day at Variety,’ she said. “I was included in a round of layoffs and … I’m heartbroken. Working at Variety for the past seven years has been a privilege and an adventure.'”

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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.