Here Media Fires at Least a Third of PlanetOut Staffers
 
 

After officially "merging" (aka snapping up assets for half-pennies on the dollar) last week with PlanetOut, Paul Colichman's newly minted Here Media (together with Here Networks and Regent Entertainment Media) has slashed at least a third of the staff at its newly acquired target, home of Gay.com and PlanetOut.com. The pink slips at PlanetOut were given Monday and are effective tomorrow. One report says the actual number of firings is equal to half the staff, across editorial and business/ad sales operations. But don't begrudge the new boss: Not only are layoffs all but expected in merges, media is suffering a stroke in this economy, and costs need to be cut.

 
Jan 15, 2009 · Link · 7 Responses
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Comments (7)

No. 1 · stuey

here tv is awesome! have you seen the lair? brilliant!

dot dot dot NOT

Posted: Jan 15, 2009 at 8:04 pm
No. 2 · C

PlanetOut still had staffers? How many people did it take to update content once every six months?

Posted: Jan 15, 2009 at 9:23 pm
No. 3 · hells kitchen guy

I think it's "mergers." "Merges" is 3rd-person singular for "merge."

Posted: Jan 16, 2009 at 9:58 am
No. 4 · Ted

ugh. if I had to work for this bozo, I would pray to get laid off!

Posted: Jan 16, 2009 at 11:03 am
No. 5 · Jet

David, please report this more accurately. PlanetOut is laying off staff in anticipation of the merger (which takes a couple months to happen). Here hasn't fired PlanetOut staff.

Posted: Jan 16, 2009 at 1:00 pm
No. 6 · Jason

"David, please report this more accurately."

Haha…good luck.

Posted: Jan 16, 2009 at 1:57 pm
No. 7 · scott

whatever. There are layoffs EVERYWHERE. If PlanetOut was in super profit mode I'd be surprised but otherwise, it's too be expected.

Posted: Jan 17, 2009 at 12:17 am
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