Netflix Lays Off the Journalists It Just Hired

Netflix Lays Off the Journalists It Just Hired

2 years ago
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxd3a5/netflix-lays-off-the-journalists-it-just-hired

Just a few months after starting it, Netflix has laid off multiple employees at Tudum, an editorial wing of the company intended to boost the platform's original shows.

Tudum was supposed to be a “fandom engine” for Netflix, designed to support its original content with original editorial content. On the site you’ll find blogs about shows like Old Enough, the popular Japanese reality show airing on Netflix about toddler running errands, or Inventing Anna, the Shonda Rhimes show about New York scammer Anna Delvey. The site also featured news about Netflix shows and exclusive interviews with the people who make them; essentially it’s designed to be a one stop shop for all things Netflix related. It was an ambitious venture that saw Netflix explicitly courting journalists and writers in media, who were paid better than most journalism jobs.