NBC News Terminates Nearly 150 DEI Editorial Staffers from the Newsroom

Bryan S. Jung : Oct 17, 2025
PJ Media

Media outlets throughout the nation have also slashed DEI departments, as the industry faces financial losses and public backlash against the "woke" agenda.

[PJMedia.com] NBC News will be terminating 150 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) employees who are responsible for "Black, Latino, Asian and LGBTQ+" coverage in the newsroom. (Image: Pixabay)

The Wrap, in an exclusive, reported that NBC News was firing its teams dedicated to issues affecting those communities.

NBC News executive vice president of editorial, Catherine Kim, announced the cuts to staff on the morning of Oct. 15. Kim claimed that the layoffs made things a "difficult day for a lot of us," the Wrap reported.

The Wednesday newsroom massacre comes as NBC News splits from its sister news network, MSNBC.

The total reductions will cut about 7% of NBC News' 2,000 newsroom staffers, which is 2% of the wider NBC Universal News Group family of local affiliates and stations, including Telemundo.

The staff cuts are nominally part of a reorganization that splits MSNBC from NBC News under a new entity called Versant, which has been described as an efficiency measure to streamline operations across NBCUniversal's news division, which comes at the expense of its NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC Out teams.

The elimination of the DEI staffers will affect NBC News' entire news operations... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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