Visits: 21 Hundreds of newsroom staff have been laid off in the last month. On Friday, they gathered to commiserate at the National Press Club. For journalists, bars have long functioned as second newsrooms. Over martinis, sources share secrets. Over …
They Lost Their Jobs, Then Went Viral on TikTok
Visits: 23 Some workers are using the platform to share stories about job cuts, give advice and search for new roles. Bailey Harris, 25, worked as a recruiter for a big tech company for more than a year and a …
She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk.
Visits: 17 Sasha Solomon, a software engineer, joined others in the media business who lost their jobs this year after publicly taking on their employers. In the middle of a workday, Sasha Solomon, a 34-year-old software engineer in Portland, Ore., …
Saluting in Solidarity
Visits: 21 As employees in tech face layoffs, an emoji meets its moment. When Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters in late October carrying a sink, it seemed like that image might be the lasting one to exemplify the unfolding …
‘Stay Alive and Survive’: Ski Resorts Brace for a Pandemic Season
Visits: 20 OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — A trickle of skiers recently zigzagged down the slopes at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort. Couples and families wandered through the resort’s village, which was decorated with golden Christmas lights and frosted with snow. …
Mark Bradford Reveals New Paintings Quarantined in a Grain Tower
Visits: 35 LOS ANGELES — “I’m adjusting to life on Mars,” says the artist Mark Bradford, as he folds his frame into a chair positioned a prudent nine feet from my own, and unpeels his mask from behind his ears. …
How to Talk to Your Friends About Money
Visits: 39 When the 2008 recession hit, Emma Connelly was in second grade. The mass layoffs hit close to home. “My dad was unemployed off and on for basically six years, so he became a stay-at-home dad,” Ms. Connelly, 22, …
Diane von Furstenberg’s Brand Is Left Exposed by the Pandemic
Visits: 40 At the end of February, just as the coronavirus was beginning to cast its pall over Europe, an elite crowd that included the likes of Anna Wintour, Jeff Bezos and Seth Meyers gathered in the gilded 19th-century halls …