Media Trends

Axios Media Trends

CBS News to lay off 6% of staff, shutter CBS News Radio

National

Consolidation increasingly cited for media job cuts

Media Trends Executive

A stacked bar chart shows annual media job cuts from 2008 to 2025, categorized by newsroom cuts and other media job cuts. It highlights significant job cuts in 2020, with newsroom job cuts far exceeding other media cuts. Job cuts in the newsroom approached 40,000 that year, while other positions remain below 20,000 annually.

Media job cuts

Data: Challenger, Gray & Christmas; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios

Mass layoffs: Block slashes staff by 40%, adding to growing tech cuts

AI boosts productivity for workers but could hurt them long-term, study finds

Macro

Axios Macro

The jobs market is starting to show hard-to-ignore cracks

A line chart that tracks U.S. job openings monthly from December 2000 to December 2025. Openings ranged from a low of 2.23 million in July 2009 to a peak of 12.13 million in March 2022. The data shows a rise until 2022, followed by a gradual decline through 2025.

U.S. job openings

Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Axios Visuals

Communicators

Axios Communicators

Why CEOs' AI hype isn't landing with employees

Pinterest layoffs reveal AI cracks in the job market

Twilight of the star CEO

October layoffs hit 22-year high as labor market wobbles, Challenger says

October layoffs hit 22-year high as labor market wobbles

More workers chase fewer holiday jobs

Miami

A line chart that tracks the daily rate of searches for seasonal U.S. jobs on Indeed from August 1 to September 30 for 2023, 2024, and 2025. Searches rose each year, starting at 483.2 per million in 2023 and reaching 1,520.5 by September 30. In 2025, searches peaked at 2,274.3.

Rate of searches for seasonal U.S. jobs on Indeed, by year

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