The first names of those impacted by staff cuts have emerged as CEO Bob Iger plans to eliminate 7,000 jobs companywide.
that Monday’s layoffs focused production and acquisitions. Among the notable staffers let go Monday are Jayne Bieber, senior vp production at Freeform/Onyx Collective; Mark Levenstein, head of production and postproduction at Hulu; and Elizabeth Newman, head of Disney’s acquisitions department from Kareem Daniel’s former Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution division.
Sources note Newman’s entire acquisitions team has been dissolved, while Bieber and Levenstein’s production teams will be folded under Carol Turner, exec vp production at ABC Signature. That team will continue to report to Eric Schrier, whom Dana Walden late last year to president of Disney Television Studios and business operations at Disney General Entertainment.
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