NBC News Terminates Nearly 150 DEI Editorial
Staffers from the Newsroom
PJ Media,
by
Bryan S Jung
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
10/17/2025 4:23:26 PM
NBC News will be terminating 150 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) employees who are responsible for "Black, Latino, Asian and LGBTQ+" coverage in the newsroom.
The Wrap, in an exclusive, reported that NBC News was firing its teams dedicated to issues affecting those communities.
NBC News executive vice president of editorial, Catherine Kim, announced the cuts to staff on the morning of Oct. 15. Kim claimed that the layoffs made things a “difficult day for a lot of us,” the Wrap reported.
The Wednesday newsroom massacre comes as NBC News splits from its sister news network, MSNBC.
The total reductions will cut about 7% of NBC News’ 2,000 newsroom staffers
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/17/2025 4:46:45 PM (No. 2018119)
Awwww, remaining staffers will now have to make their own trips to Starbucks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Safari Man 10/17/2025 4:53:28 PM (No. 2018125)
If they hired a single college intern, he could do the work of all 150 fired. And he wouldn’t even have to do anything.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 10/17/2025 5:44:33 PM (No. 2018153)
Hmmm. Should we look for an uptick in news quality?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Tennman 10/17/2025 6:22:35 PM (No. 2018167)
How many frigging "editorial staffers" did NBC have? To recycle an old joke: What have you got if there's 150 DEI editorial staffers up to their neck in sand? Not enough sand.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 10/17/2025 6:23:11 PM (No. 2018168)
It's a start...
21 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
mifla 10/17/2025 6:32:52 PM (No. 2018170)
Good luck finding a new job with DEI on your resume.
When the bottom line kicks in, these jobs are the first to go.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Schnapps 10/17/2025 7:47:02 PM (No. 2018195)
If a TV news organization terminates 150 DEI hires, and no one is watching, is it really a news story?
33 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Northcross 10/17/2025 8:21:51 PM (No. 2018205)
Fortunately for them, many jobs are suddenly opening up in construction, landscaping, fruit picking, chicken plucking, dishwashing, and maid service.
29 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/17/2025 8:54:37 PM (No. 2018212)
NBC desperately trying to distance itself from the MSNBC >>> MSNow shipwreck. Will it really make any difference? Probably not. Liberals are too entrenched in legacy media. They have ripped out the more egregious, woke hires to give themselves space to regroup and pretend they are not really a liberal hot mess. But they have been for decades, just less blatantly.
The problem they face is that when NBC rose, there was little competition. Now anyone on the internet can set up a channel and pump out news just as broad reaching as any of the networks. No one trusts the legacy media so, in many ways, they are starting from scratch with a bad reputation. Yeah, they still have money to reachout but money is not needed to get a message out. All you need is a good message and a good reputation.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 10/17/2025 9:03:11 PM (No. 2018216)
Deadwood is always the first to go. The DEI guys (or girls) did nothing productive. It was just a way to virtue signal that they were on the proper and woke side. I also don't doubt that there were some financial reasons and it was a good place to start. It's still hard to believe that so many were there doing little or nothing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
thefield 10/18/2025 12:03:51 AM (No. 2018256)
200 were hiding under the desk.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 10/18/2025 1:34:50 AM (No. 2018263)
Could just be a diversion, or a token gesture.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Catfur27 10/18/2025 8:18:58 AM (No. 2018322)
..." They can learn to code..." - Joe Buy-dumb
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chance_232 10/18/2025 8:26:28 AM (No. 2018325)
They just saved themselves at least $11,000,000 annually in wages and benefits. This is almost as bad as Colbert needing 200 staffers for his show.
What is it with liberal organizations needing hundreds of unnecessary employees? I mean, USAID needed 1200 federal employees to money launder cash to democrats.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
kdog 10/18/2025 8:36:33 AM (No. 2018334)
Why would an "unbiased" news organization need ANY editorial staffers?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MakingSense 10/18/2025 8:51:09 AM (No. 2018343)
A good start!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 10/18/2025 9:15:25 AM (No. 2018355)
Hopefully MadCow was part of that group.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Msquared112 10/18/2025 9:47:41 AM (No. 2018374)
Still waiting for Robby Starbuck to light into COSTCO, because I'm boycotting them until they ditch their very entrenched and unapologetic stance on DEI. They rely on not losing customers because of it, but I hope to prove them wrong.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mossley 10/18/2025 10:16:38 AM (No. 2018389)
What did 150 people do? Were these people kids of Democratic politicians and donors with no job skills? Was USAID paying their salaries? Come on, NBC - if you want to be taken seriously, investigate yourself.
7 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Dishfunctional 10/18/2025 11:28:41 AM (No. 2018442)
Cool... 150 reasons for me to start watching NBC News. Nah... not good enuff. 😂
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/18/2025 12:30:18 PM (No. 2018474)
Sounds like NBC, Nothing But Crap is getting the MESSAGE!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 10/18/2025 2:30:27 PM (No. 2018562)
About time they clean house and get rid the trash.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Omen55 10/18/2025 7:27:32 PM (No. 2018632)
I'm sure all those DEI staffers will be able to find new employment.
Oh, wait.
Trump is waging war on DEI.
Never mind.
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Was Mizzuz Greenspan.... aka Hyena Hair.... one of the terminated?
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