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This week, according to people familiar with the matter, NBC News quietly began the process of staff reductions in its London bureau, the latest tremor in a restructuring that has left journalists across the network uneasy. Because of U.K. labor law, no one was cut outright. Instead, the people familiar with the matter told Status, the company formally entered the consultation phase on Tuesday, which is the first step toward potential redundancies. While the move does not immediately result in layoffs, staffers understand it signals that cuts are likely imminent.
The London process adds to a string of changes NBC News has undertaken as it prepares for life without its longtime cable siblings. Last week, as we first reported, the company eliminated positions on its graphics team, a unit that for years operated as a shared resource for NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC. With NBCU spinning off its cable holdings into a separate company called Versant, that shared structure is no longer necessary. Fewer than a dozen full-time employees were impacted by those pink slips, though many more freelancers were also cut.
While the cuts thus far have been limited, the moves are leading to a fair amount of anxiety inside NBC News. According to more than a half-dozen staffers and others close to the network…
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