Media – CNN Hong Kong scraps 30 jobs

 

Cutting media jobs in Hong Kong has become more contagious than SARS this week. After the Far Economic Review (80), TVB (28) now also CNN Hong Kong will cut ten positions for producers and twenty of freelancers, the South China Morning Post reports today.

The dismissals at CNN are part of a worldwide cost cutting operation that will also involves jobs in London and Atlanta. How many jobs will be lost in this region because of the reduction of the BBC labor force with  6,000 is not yet clear. The BBC announced earlier this week they would get rid of a quarter of their total staff.