Liveblogging the Layoffs: Life & Style ... Motor Trend [Layoff Daily]

[KiRby]

Media layoffs are becoming so frequent, and our email inboxes are getting so overloaded with tips about firings, that we figure that we might as well start a daily liveblog on the topic. Know about layoffs hitting a media company? Post it in the comments below. We'll be updating this post as new reports come in. So far today, we've heard the Life&Style marketing staff got whacked yesterday and that Source Interlink, publisher of Motor Trend and Soap Opera Digest is rumored to be cutting 150 jobs ... Sadly, we're expecting more to come. [For the squeamish you can always email us at [email protected] (but not from your work account, kids!) or call our tip line at 646-214-8138.]

• Life&Style:
  
  A little hung over this morning after a long night of "goodbye drinks". Yesterday afternoon the publisher and nearly the entire Life&Style sales and marketing staff (including regional offices around the country) were let go - including myself. Only two people were left standing (1 sales/1 marketing) and they'll be folded into the In Touch team. Can't say I'm shocked, I had all my personal belongings packed into a box under my desk...surely thought it would fold first though.
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• Source Interlink:
  
  Random tip o' the day: I just heard Source Interlink just cut 150 staff and plans to shutter or consolidate many of their truck and off-road pubs. Their main titles are Motor Trend, Soap Opera Digest, Automobile ... 75 mags, mostly automotive, off-road, sports pubs.
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