(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Rio-based daily Globo is laying off around 100 staff, including 30 journalists, a spokesman for the union of journalists told AFP Friday.
"The layoffs are hitting reporters who have worked for a short time at the paper as well as top names from the Rio press, chroniclers or journalists who have received top prizes," a union statement read.
It said the media group "denied being in crisis," explaining the sackings as designed to "improve" production.
The spokesman said managers indicated "different production units producing the same kind of work" had been found and that a better "convergence model" was required.
The union spokesman denounced the move as "sending a clear message that workers are disposable material in the eyes of bosses greedy for ever greater profits."
Founded in July 1925, Globo newspaper is part of Brazil's largest media conglomerate, one of the biggest in Latin America.
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