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Posted Oct 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM UTC

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Charles Pulliam-Moore

Paramount is laying off thousands of employees.

It has been two months since Skydance bought Paramount for $8 billion, and — shocker — the newly merged megacorporation has already begun the process of laying off thousands of its workers. It’s almost like these big media consolidation deals invariably end up harming workers.

Paramount begins laying off 2,000 people months after Skydance merger

[The Washington Post]

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