#news

How about elsewhere?

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article316910881.html

I just heard that some RVP’S were on the chopping block, about to be canned, or were already canned. What’s the skinny on it?

COS Office is closing in November

Is there anything coming next week?

What's going on?

Anything concrete?

How long does this leadership think we can keep getting these PR hits and getting away with it?

Tulsa's KJRH TV station has significantly reduced its workforce as part of a strategic pivot by its parent company. The layoffs are concentrated in roles like newscast directors, producers, and photojournalists. This move aligns with E.W. Scripps' national strategy to prioritize 24/7 streaming news over traditional studio broadcasts. The company aims to deploy more journalists into the field and deliver news faster across digital platforms. While linear broadcasts will continue, the emphasis is shifting to a digital-first model.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/state/2026/08/05/kjrh-tulsa-tv-station-lay-off-cuts-staff-as-news-model-changes/91182858007/

I don't believe this guy wasn't called nutlick in school

https://finance.yahoo.com/small-business/articles/prove-went-office-inside-charlotte-090000670.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

Anybody watch the Netflix Boeing documentary “Freefall”? The parallels with what we’re currently doing will have you shaking your head.

Pushed ?. Seems to be very sudden.

When does Fawley go and who is buying?

Corus Entertainment has implemented another round of layoffs, impacting employees at its Toronto radio station News 640, Global National, and Global BC. The company stated these changes are necessary to adapt to evolving business needs and ensure sustainable team structures. These recent cuts follow a previous reduction of 43 employees in mid-July. A company spokesperson assured that no news outlets will be closed as a result of these actions. The media company is currently awaiting regulatory approval for a proposed sale.

https://torontosun.com/news/national/corus-entertainment-layoffs-news-640-toronto-broadcast-staff

Any news about new round of RAs in September?

Source :

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/quote-of-the-day-by-oracle-co-founder-larry-ellison-taking-care-of-your-employees-is-extremely-important-and-very-very-visible-offers-timeless-wisdom-on-teamwork-productivity-in-workplace-kindness-compassion-empathy-charity-shows-psychology-of-true-success/articleshow/133318935.cms?from=mdr

This PR story by Sastry appeared in Fortune recently. Fact check this & weigh in with your comments:

AI Won’t Fix A Broken Company. Rewiring it will

By Sastry & M. Sharma

“Every CEO wants to talk about AI’s magic. Almost none want to talk about the boring problems standing in the way.
Picture a railroad that spends billions on the fastest trains in the world, then runs them on the same aging rails. The trains aren’t the constraint. The tracks are. That’s the uncomfortable truth for most enterprises deploying AI today: the technology has never been more powerful, yet only a fraction of companies turn it into measurable business impact. The rest are stacking agents on top of decades of legacy IT, siloed data, and broken workflows, which doesn’t accelerate the business. It just automates the dysfu.ckson. We know this firsthand. Nearly two years ago, our organizations partnered to modernize TIAA’s recordkeeping infrastructure. TIAA is 108 years old and carries the technical debt to prove it. Before we could scale AI, we had to rebuild the foundation underneath it, cleaning data, retiring outdated systems, and redesigning how work actually flows. The payoff: plan sponsors can now change investment options for employees’ retirement plans in days instead of weeks, and digital engagement across TIAA’s millions of participants has risen 13%. None of that came from a flashy AI demo. It came from the unglamorous work most companies skip.

That’s the real story of this moment: AI transformation isn’t a technology project. It’s a business transformation, a change-management project, and an operating-model rebuild that happens to run on AI. Companies that treat it as a tech bolt-on will spend years chasing pilots that never scale.
Here are five focus areas we believe separate the enterprises pulling ahead from those stuck in perpetual pilot mode, and the actions leaders should take now.

1. Modernize the digital core before you scale agents. Don’t layer AI on top of legacy systems and hope for the best. Audit which platforms are actually load-bearing, retire the rest, and rebuild the infrastructure agents will run on. AI amplifies whatever foundation it’s given, good or bad.
2. Treat data readiness as a prerequisite, not an afterthought. Only 5% of businesses say their data is AI-ready, and Gartner predicts 60% of AI projects will be abandoned through 2026 for lack of AI-ready data. The fix isn’t more data, it’s a unified, governed platform with quality pipelines that structure what you already have before it ever reaches a model.
3. Redesign the workflow, not just the task. Automating a broken process just makes it fail faster. Map the end-to-end workflow first, then decide what AI should touch. Apply an 80/20 lens to every role: some jobs will change 20%, others 80%, and the people doing the work are best positioned to say which is which.
4. Keep humans in the loop where trust is the product. When a 73-year-old retiree calls to make a decision about their life savings, that moment requires a different level of care than a chatbot can offer. Put AI in employees’ hands first to make them faster and better, TIAA has rolled out its own generative and agentic platform, GAIT, to 85% daily adoption among colleagues, while reserving high-stakes, high-trust interactions for humans augmented by AI, not replaced by it.
5. Build for resilience, governance, security, and optionality. Stay tech- and model-agnostic so you’re not betting the enterprise on a single frontier lab’s roadmap. Strengthen third-party and cyber defenses as attack surfaces grow, and build audit trails and human oversight into the orchestration layer itself, especially in regulated industries where compliance can’t be an afterthought.
   None of this is glamorous. It won’t generate a headline about a breakthrough demo. But the enterprises winning with AI aren’t the ones with the biggest budgets or the fastest adoption, they’re the ones disciplined enough to do the boring work first: clean data, a modernized core, and workflows rebuilt for how AI actually works, not how it’s marketed.

In the AI era, complexity is a competitive disadvantage that can no longer be hidden behind a sizzling AI experience. The tracks determine how fast the trains can go. Enterprises that rewire the foundation now, not just the technology sitting on top of it, are the ones that will still be running at full speed five years from now.”

The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of Fortune, TIAA, Accenture, clowns, or goons

This reads less like a hit piece and more like a victory lap around NKE's virtue-signaling carcass. Many commenters on this forum have posted similar opinions and had them deleted by the mods.

But now it's global news:

https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/colin-kaepernick-dylan-mulvaney-nikes-decade-left-wing-activism-finally-caught-up

Any news on layoffs at NM? I’ve heard of two rounds so far, but not which teams have been impacted.

I was in a meeting. The VP confirmed that it will happen by the end of August. No more details.

Hearing maybe something at the end of the month. Anyone else?

meridianhcihcbcbss08142026.pdf https://share.google/edrWyRGq6OLm79a2I

Now they are being fined 1.3 million for Illinois market.
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We have all noticed, including people in neighboring departments, that all the fire and fury about AI back in the Spring has disappeared. Also, many national articles about AI buyer’s remorse and people who were laid off being rehired; many errors with AI; AI not reaping any real benefits. Also- I have heard that part 3 of that AI test has been moved back to next year (the one where they want a 6-page thing). AI=dot com bo-m and bust?

Great job, keep it up. Looking forward to more market cap decline so Hock can burst a few blood vessels.

https://abc13.com/post/harris-county-jury-awards-watson-grinding-explosion-survivors-more-61-million-latest-verdict-3m/19659865/

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A Harris County jury has awarded more than $61 million to survivors of the deadly 2020 Watson Grinding explosion, marking the latest multimillion-dollar verdict against 3M over the disaster.

Anyone know any new info on this?

E.W. Scripps Co. is implementing a national restructuring that includes layoffs affecting approximately 15 employees at its Colorado Springs television stations, KKTV and KOAA. This consolidation follows Scripps' acquisition of KKTV earlier this year, creating a duopoly in the market. The company aims to preserve local journalism by integrating the newsrooms and launching a new AI-enabled streaming platform. While some employees have expressed devastation, the company states the goal is to enhance public service and focus on original reporting. The long-term impact of this consolidation on local news coverage remains to be seen.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

https://gazette.com/2026/08/17/15-laid-off-at-kktv-koaa-part-of-national-consolidation-by-e-w-scripps-co/

Last week slack had 26,800+

The rumors are legit. Talks ongoing for Uniti to acquire Fidium.

BREAKING: Nike stock, $NKE, collapses to its lowest level since September 2014, now down -78% from its all time high seen in 2021.

The stock has now officially erased over -$200 billion in market cap since its record high.

#leadbysport

Turns legacy Coterra is making about 12% more. Heard balancing should be done by October. Any news on different departments target date?

What other groups were affected last Thursday besides AP??

https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/health-insurers-dropping-medicare-advantage-100000446.html

Thousands of seniors are receiving notification that their Medicare Advantage plan won't be available next year, and there's nothing they can do about it except find another option.
One in 10 Medicare Advantage policyholders face forced disenrollment this year, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. That's as many as 2.9 million Americans.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2026/05/08/recession-gradual-sudden.html

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eeoc-sues-citizens-bank-for-disability-27163/