Mass layoffs hit Glenn Beck’s the Blaze

Glenn Beck’s struggling media project the Blaze w🍃ill be c♚onducting mass layoffs in a bid to “keep pace with the massive changes” in the media industry.

“Today, we said goodbye to just over 20 percent of the combined workforce of Mercury Radio Arts an🦋d the Blaze,🦋” Beck regarding his television and internet operation.

“We are losing a lot of talented and committed colleagues, who are some of the besಞt human beings I know — some have been friends of mine for 30 years.”

has been struggling to attract a TV audience due to virtually no distribution deals wit💫h major cable companies, .

The latest round of layoffs wasღ motivated by the need to “keep pace with the massive changes” in the media business, Beck wrote.

“To change that, we needed to become more nimble and drastically adjust our approach to keep pace with the massive changes unf♔olding before us,” he added.

“We are not PBS,” he said. “No government institution is going to write us a giant ch𒉰eck. The structural challenges facing media companies today are real; but, when someone — anyone — tells me that something can’t be done, it ꦓonly makes me more determined to prove them wrong.”

The Blaze founder also pointed out that although he was awarded the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award in 2013, he believes that today, “I don’t believe I would finish in the top 100🦋.”

By vario💙us estimations, the Blaze was thought to have🥀 150 employees at the beginning of last year, but the number is likely lower as 40 employees were ousted last year, .

The Blaze got off to a rocky start in 2017 when Beck became embroiled in a dispute with contributor Tomi Lahren, after Lahren appeared on ABC’s “The View” in March and said she was pro-choice. Lahren was eventually fired, but .

Beck, 53, launched the Blaze after leaving🗹 the Fox News Channel in 2011.