Netflix’s Tudum layoffs have big DE&I implications

Netflix did everything that DE&I advocates asked for when staffing its brand journalism venture, Tudum

The company hired a diverse cohort, mostly people of color and/or women. It gave them generous pay and creative freedom to speak to audiences from their individual, unique perspectives.

Then, after less than a year, Netflix laid them off.

After the plug was pulled, employees began speaking to the media, most on condition of anonymity.

“This was one of the most diverse teams that I have worked on in media,” one person told The Daily Beast, “and I feel like this is honestly kind of a textbook thing where they put a Black woman (Editorial and Publishing Manager Evette Dionne) in charge of something that they know they’re not going to support — that they know they’re going to sabotage — and then just let it fail.”