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The Los Angeles Times has announced severe job cuts eliminating 74 newsroom positions including "several" photographer positions, representing 13% of the newsroom.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta completed yet another round of layoffs Wednesday, what is likely the final batch of job cuts the company announced in March.

Calling it a move to a "year of efficiency," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will lay off 10,000 more workers and is closing about 5,000 open job listings.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is gearing up for another round of layoffs that are expected to affect thousands of employees.

According to a report on Nikkei, Tamron has solicited 200 voluntary retirements from its two factories in the Aomori prefecture in Japan, equal to about 40% of its domestic factory workforce.

Nikon will cut more than 2,000 workers outside of Japan by March of 2022 as well as shift some of its production from its factory in the Miyagi province of Japan to Thailand. The changes come as the company grapples with the rise of smartphones and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

After delaying the report—and publishing a revised financial forecast earlier this month—Nikon has finally released its Fiscal Year 2020 financial results. At the same time, the company reportedly cut 10% of its workforce in Thailand and Laos, laying off 700 people.

GoPro isn't the only company whose balance sheet has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. VSCO—the startup behind the photo sharing app and community of the same name—announced that it was forced to let go of nearly one third of its entire workforce as the market environment changed "overnight."

GoPro is getting slammed by the business headwinds created by the coronavirus pandemic, and the company announced yesterday that it will be laying off 20% of its remaining workforce. What's more, the company is planning to drop retailers and work to sell its products directly to consumers.

GoPro is reportedly laying off roughly 200 to 300 employees, mostly from the aerial division that works on the company's struggling Karma drone.

Film emulation and photo sharing company VSCO confirmed today that they are shutting down their New York City office and laying off the staff there in order to "centralize" their workforce at the company’s headquarters in Oakland, CA.

Once a tech darling, GoPro has been struggling in 2016. In addition to less-than-stellar sales that have not matched forecasts, a class action lawsuit, and a massive drone recall, the company has now announced "restructuring" that will eliminate 200 full time positions and cut 15% of its workforce.

Nikon's high-end camera division hasn't been doing so hot these days, and now a new reports claims that Nikon will be cutting about 1,000 jobs in Japan, which represent about 10% of the company's total workforce. Nikon, however, quickly issued a statement denying the report.

If you've received any photography and Photoshop training and news from Scott Kelby's KelbyOne, you probably recognize the names Pete Collins, RC Concepcion, Brad Moore, and Mia McCormick. Those are a few of the big names who are now looking for a new job -- they are being laid off by KelbyOne as the company attempts to refocus on its "core principles" of training creatives.

Photojournalism is having a bad year in Canada. There have been a number of major layoffs and murmurings of layoffs that have some people calling photojournalists "an endangered species."

There's more bad news in the photojournalism industry today: Sports Illustrated has laid off Director of Photography Brad Smith, Photo Editor Claire Bourgeois, and Photo Director John Blackmar. This comes almost exactly 1 year after the magazine laid off its entire roster of staff photographers.

National Geographic is laying off 9% of its 2,000 employees as it prepares to finalize its "expanded partnership" with 21st Century Fox, a $725 million deal that turns the iconic yellow-bordered magazine into a for-profit publication. The roughly 180 layoffs reportedly represent the largest reduction in the 127-year history of the Society.

America's largest newspaper publisher has laid off a large number of employees in recent days, but things appear to be quite rosy at the top. An internal team-building video has surfaced that's raising quite a few eyebrows: it's a parody of the LEGO Movie song "Everything is Awesome," featuring company CEO Gracia Martore as the band leader.

Jim Romenesko got his hands on the clip, which you can watch above.

Sports Illustrated has laid off the last of its staff photographers. All six remaining photographers at the magazine were laid off yesterday due to economic circumstances and company restructuring.

In August of 2013, we shared the news that Thomson Reuters had dropped all of its freelance sports photographers in North America in favor of a deal they struck with USA Today Sports Images. But it appears that sad move was only the beginning.

Earlier this week, more members of the photography staff at Thomson Reuters were let go in the multi-national media company’s ongoing effort to downsize and focus its workforce, especially in the imaging department.

Earlier this week, the photography staff of the Orlando Sentinel in Florida was pulled into a meeting in which they were told that their current jobs are disappearing, and they will need to apply to new more 'videocentric' positions by tomorrow, Friday, February 28th.

We're unfortunately accustomed to bad news in the photo industry. That's not to say there's not great news and exciting new products and a bright future ahead, all of those things are there too, but slumping sales and discontinued products are becoming all-too-common reports.

Case in point: it seems flash trigger king PocketWizard is struggling of late, with reports claiming that the company has had to lay off as many as 20 of its 50 employees due to low sales figures and increasing competition out of China.

Chicago Sun-Times photographers, who lost their jobs in a mass layoff last week, are not going quietly into oblivion.

When the Chicago Sun-Times unexpectedly laid off its entire team of photojournalists last week, Al Podgorski was one of the photographers hearing the bad news at the meeting. Having worked for the paper since 1984, Podgorski's image-making instincts kicked in, and he shot the photograph above showing his colleagues learning that they were being laid off.

The photographer in the center of the frame is John H. White, the renowned photojournalist who joined the Sun-Times in 1978 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982.

(I'm not saying this is how the conversation went down at the Chicago Sun-Times last week, but I'm saying it could have.)

Good morning, everyone.

Is the entire photography staff here? ...26, 27, 28...yes, it looks like everyone is present and accounted for, so let's begin.

We don't need you.

Hey, recently fired Chicago Sun-Times photographers -- want some insult to go with that injury?
Too bad, because newspaper management revealed today the paper's strategy for replacing the work of the 20 shooters about to hit the pavement: Reporters will squeeze off a few shots with their smartphone to accompany stories.