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#MediaInCrisis: Since India went into lockdown to contain #COVID19, several media outfits have cut salaries and laid-off employees.

Here are all our stories on the ongoing industry-wide crisis 👇🏼

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To weather the coronavirus crisis, Buzzfeed cuts salaries to avoid layoffs. CEO Jonah Peretti will not take a salary while executives face paycuts as high as 25 percent.

#MediaShots

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The Sakal Media Group, one of Maharashtra’s leading media groups, had asked 15 employees to submit their resignations and leave by March 31.

“They asked us to leave immediately. No one will give us jobs during this crisis," says one of the employees.

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The Indian Express asked its employees to take a “temporary salary cut” after the nationwide lockdown due to the pandemic affected the paper’s circulation and sales.

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On April 10, News Nation Network abruptly laid off its entire English digital team of 15. They were not given notice of termination or allowed to serve their notice period.

@anusuya_som reports.

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👉 The Quint asked about 45 employees to go on an indefinite leave without pay.

👉 Times Life, a Sunday supplement produced by the Times of India, asked at least three of its employees to leave.

Report by @sighyush.

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Hindustan Times cuts take home pay of staff, offers insurance cover for their kin.

The company has also deferred “the performance appraisal cycle for the prior year to a later date”.

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All India Radio has effectively put its casual employees out of work.

“Nearly 80 percent of casual employees have been affected,” claimed Hari Krishan Sharma, president of the AIR Casual Announcers and Comperes Union.

@anusuya_som reports.

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The Times Group announced pay cuts for its employees.

Salaries have also been restructured, effectively leaving many employees with less money on a monthly basis.

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On April 27, Fortune India emailed all its 40 staffers asking them to take “voluntary” unpaid furlough for three months.

The mail came with a “consent form” that the employees were asked to sign.

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On May 6, the first round of layoffs struck the Economic Times.

At least a dozen employees in the accounting department who worked for both the Economic Times and the Times of India were let go.

@sighyush reports.

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@sighyush All staffers in Ranchi and Jamshedpur have been shown the door.

In Guwahati, only the bureau chief has been retained out of a team of six reporters.

@SharmaAyan006 and @sighyush report.

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The Times of India to stop two out of its four editions in Kerala.

According to the Kochi Post, about 15 journalists will lose their jobs in Kerala as a result.

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With pay cuts and layoffs across media outlets, @chitranshu09 breaks it down as to how pinning it entirely on Covid-19 is a misreading of the current crisis.

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A Hindustan Times employee, when given the option to write his own resignation, put two crisp sentences on a blank sheet of paper: “I am not resigning by my own will. I have been forced to resign.”

@sighyush reports.

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