Categories: OLD Media Moves

Red shirt day at Consumer Reports

Dozens of News Guild of New York members at Consumer Reports magazine marched in solidarity Thursday to a management staff meeting.

They were displaying their anger over the management’s decision to lay off 12 of their colleagues Wednesday, including several long-term employees who seniority.

The Guild has said it has identified savings that could had eliminated the need for most of the layoffs.

The layoffs come less than a month after the company announced a new editor for its flagship publication and that it was discontinuing ShopSmart magazine and its Money Adviser newsletter.

The company’s editorial side has been in turmoil for several years now. It has gone through three editors in the past three years and has struggled to revamp its operations to focus more on digital.

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.