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News Company TEGNA Lays Off ENTIRE Fact-Checking Team As Trump Term Starts
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7:38Now PlayingMajor news and media company TEGNA lays off its entire fact-checking team, known as VERIFY, in a surprise announcement coming less than a month after Donald Trump's second term began. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Tegna Lays Off Entire National FactChecking and ‘Misinformation’ Team
"Television news and media company Tegna laid off its entire national fact-checking team this week less than a month after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Tegna – which was spun off from the media company Gannett in 2015 – closed its national “Verify” fact-checking department on Monday, laying off more than a dozen journalists in the process.
“As some of you may have heard, TEGNA laid off our national VERIFY team today,” wrote Verify senior editor Sara Roth in a post on LinkedIn. “That means many incredible journalists are available for work. Are you looking to hire? Let me tell you about these amazing people.”
According to Roth’s post, at least 19 journalists and “misinformation analysts” were laid off as part of the closing of the team, which was created nearly ten years ago in 2015."
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