Thirty people were laid off from Minnesota Public Radio’s parent company last week as a result of state and federal funding cuts.
American Public Media Group (APMG) eliminated the jobs on Friday, almost a month after the St. Paul-based organization announced that it would lay off 5% to 8% of its staff amid a $6 million budget gap. The final cut was about 6% of roughly 500 employees.
The layoffs impacted the APM Research Lab staff, which focused on demographic analyses, surveys and data journalism, but not the MPR newsroom, per MPR News…