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ESPN Laying Off 350 Employees As Revenues Decline

Thomas Manning

ESPN, the self-described worldwide leader in sports, is set to announce as early as Wednesday that it will be cutting 350 jobs due to falling revenues and viewership.

“Beginning today, we will be enacting a number of organizational changes at ESPN to better support our future goals,” ESPN president John Skipper said in a memo Tuesday. “That will include the elimination of a number of positions impacting friends and colleagues across the organization,” he warned, though he did not provide details about what departments and positions would be cut.

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