Report: Media Layoff Memos Rife with Clichés

Newsweek: Media employment is always fickle, but this season has been particularly brutal. With major recent cuts at ESPN, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg and National Geographic, a particularly huge population of journalists will find themselves jobless at the Thanksgiving table. There’s plenty of advice on the Internet for the newly jobless, but not so much for those actually distributing the pink slips. The layoff announcement is an increasingly inevitable category of writing.