Tijolaço: Abril's 'journalism' award results in 570 jobs lost.
Layoffs at Abril affect 570 employees, 171 of whom are journalists; at Veja magazine alone, the forecast is that 30 of the current 80 journalists will leave; "It's doubly sad, both because some of the best magazines and book collections in the country were published there, and because in a small category like that of journalists, this number of losses is a real massacre," says Fernando Brito, from Tijolaço.
By Fernando Brito, from brick - Editora Abril announced today the package of layoffs resulting from its bankruptcy, or rather, restructuring of the company, after the Civita grandchildren handed over control of the company to creditor banks.
There are 570 employees, of whom 171, don't be fooled by the number, are journalists. Poder360 reports that "in the magazine Veja"Regarding the company's flagship project, the forecast is that 30 of the current 80 journalists will leave."
For every three chairs, one remains empty.
Last December, a hundred "collaborators" – as they now call the employees – had already been laid off, and the company still wanted to pay the severance packages in installments.
That shows why they like labor reform so much, doesn't it?
The claim is that the company will "concentrate its human and technical resources on its leading brands," among them the utterly discredited Veja.
Nonsense, how can you "concentrate your human and technical resources" on a magazine that goes from 80 journalists to 50?
Abril is neither the first nor will it be the last of the major media companies to die, because they erred in their vision of the future – in fact, they spend millions hiring marketers to write platitudes about it – and they failed to keep up with the changes, even though they constantly haughtily proclaim what is "modern" and what is archaic.
In the case of the Civita company, everything was aggravated by the economic policy through which they literally did everything in their power to bring down an elected government.
But this "mass layoff" – forgive us, but that's the term we use in newsrooms for these mass dismissals – will continue flying in the little tree at Abril.
It is doubly sad, both because some of the best magazines and book collections in the country were published there, and because in a small category like that of journalists, this number of casualties is a true massacre.
In the early 80s, from afar, when we were following the demise of the Rio de Janeiro newspaper Gazeta de Notícias, there was a story about a messenger who, due to staff cuts, had also become a telephone operator, answering calls that began with "Hello, is this Gazeta?" with a philosophical phrase:
-For now…