{"id":693,"date":"2026-11-11T13:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:19:44","slug":"abc-news-veterans-take-buyouts-disney-continues-cut-costs-staffers-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"ABC News veterans take buyouts as Disney continues to cut costs, and staffers worry about \u2018brain drain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wave of senior leaders at ABC News have accepted buyouts, raising alarms inside the newsroom about losing institutional knowledge built up over careers. Staffers are calling the departures a &#x27;brain drain,&#x27; worried that the exit of so many veterans will hollow out the network&#x27;s expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts are part of Disney&#x27;s ongoing effort to reduce costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/11\/11\/media\/abc-news-veterans-take-buyouts-as-disney-continues-to-cut-costs-sparking-about-brain-drain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post \u2014 ABC News veterans take buyouts as Disney continues to cut costs, and staffers worry about \u2018brain drain\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ABC News, Disney, media layoffs, buyouts, brain drain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wave of senior leaders at ABC News have accepted buyouts, raising alarms inside the newsroom about losing institutional knowledge built up over careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[703,707,706,704,705],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-latest-news","tag-abc-news","tag-brain-drain","tag-buyouts","tag-disney","tag-media-layoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}