Dirce Toca

copy editor @huffpost. En español e inglés

[HuffPost Union @HuffPostUnion]

If possible, please consider donating to the talented reporters, editors and designers impacted by this decision. Solidarity forever ✊ https://t.co/M3f6nJVuEW

[HuffPost Union @HuffPostUnion]

A statement from the HuffPost Union @WGAEast on today's layoffs.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

The press secretary is tossing out ad hominem attacks, hoping to discredit me and HuffPost.
So here is some actual context: I’ve been doing this professionally for a dozen years before she was even born.

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

Here's an updated list of who has signed and who is refusing to sign the Pentagon's press policy.
https://t.co/XWxO0vqhsM

[ABC News PR @ABCNewsPR]

Joint statement from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News Media, NBC News

[Dirce Toca @dircetoca]

Coming back on this platform to share I’m proud to work for an outlet where we don’t — and won’t — give in to this administration’s ridiculous attacks on free speech and freedom of the press
https://t.co/syTBjF3YJ6

[Marina Fang (same handle at Bluesky) @marinafang]

Briefly back to say: yesterday, I was laid off after 10 years at HuffPost. I’m obviously gutted. But once I take a breath, I’ll be open to jobs & freelance work, both in journalism and outside of it, given the state of our industry. [email protected]; Signal: marinafang.72

[Jonathan Nicholson @JNicholsonInDC]

My last story for HuffPost (sniff!) up now: how DOGE access to Trsy's payment systems could also set up GOP to fulfill a dream some have had for years: "prioritizing" which bills to pay -- ie, defaulting on some -- when debt limit is reached.
https://t.co/VwLyEBUt2Y

[Carla Herreria 🌺 @carlalove]

I did it: After almost 12 years, 3 teams, and filing stories to nearly every section of the site, I made the heartbreaking decision to take the buyout and say goodbye to @HuffPost + @HuffPostUnion. 🧵

(pictured: me when i first started)

[Taryn Finley @_TARYNitUP]

After 9 years at HuffPost, today is my last day. I’ve grown so much & I’m grateful for the journey. This has been a dream job. Now on to new dreams.

I’ll still be writing/hosting/moderating, just doing it as a freelancer for now. Pitch + commission me at [email protected].

[Miranda Green @mirandacgreen]

One of the saddest things about leaving @HuffPost is that I was so excited to be writing WITH @AlexCKaufman & @c_m_dangelo instead of chasing their scoops frantically.

The publication lost it's entire climate unit today, and two really incredible men at their craft

[Liz Skalka @lizskalka]

I was laid off today from @HuffPost. I'm bummed for my colleagues who also lost jobs at a really critical juncture for our industry.

But I'm grateful for the opportunity to travel the country covering national politics and elections (a job I'd love to continue elsewhere!).

[Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias]

After over a decade at @HuffPost, I’ve decided to take a buyout in the latest round of layoffs.

It's tough to leave a place I love & I’m so grateful for all the people here, & all the faith they’ve put in me through the years.

[Alexander C. Kaufman @AlexCKaufman]

After 11 years, my time at @HuffPost is coming to an end.

Last week, I learned HuffPost would be ending its dedicated coverage of energy and climate change.

This comes right after the world hit 1.5 degrees Celsius, the temperature average above pre-industrial norms that most nations on Earth wanted to keep warming from exceeding. In the United States, the country most responsible for the cumulative carbon added to the atmosphere, we are at the dawn of a massive upswing in electricity demand from data centers, air conditioning and electrification. The new Trump administration is set to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accords and embark on a radical new era of drilling, deregulation, and power plant construction. All of this requires diligent, balanced journalism. You can count on me to keep providing that.

But it won’t be at HuffPost. Last Friday, I requested a buyout. Thanks to our union contract, I’m walking away with an enviable runaway by even the standards of some of my friends in professions with far better pay than journalism.

When I arrived at HuffPost on March 3, 2014, I was a nervous 22-year-old, shaken by brutal experiences with past bosses and the misfortune of entering the job market at the tail end of the Great Recession.

Within a year I was on staff, running the business vertical on my own on weekends, living in my first apartment in Brooklyn, and helping organize the union that ultimately delivered for me the security I’m benefiting from today. That would have been enough. But there was so much more to come. Chasing scoops, covering the first Trump administration and a world-historic pandemic, authoring features I never thought I had it in me to write, winning awards, going on international TV and radio, speaking on stages to audiences of hundreds, reporting from the Arctic, the Amazon, Asia, Europe and so much more. Over and over again, I would do that thing silly people sometimes do, trying to assess my career through the eyes of my teenage self. It felt awesome. I’m immensely grateful to my editors and colleagues at HuffPost for making all that possible.

But, even before this latest upheaval, I was feeling restless. My wife is due with our daughter – our first child – in April, so I was content to stay put. Over the past six days, I’ve reflected a lot on how fortunate I feel to be pushed out of my comfort zone before the bleary-eyed early days of fatherhood rendered me that much more complacent. When HuffPost first announced the layoffs weeks ago, I was racked with anxiety. But as I started having conversations with editors all over the place, my confidence and optimism – not my usual mode of seeing the world – surged. There have been many moments I have been reminded of the concept in my faith of bitachon, or trust, in my higher power. That feels more real to me than it ever has.

If you have followed my work here, then you know I’m not very good at sitting still for long. I have some exciting opportunities already lined up, including one starting Monday, and I’ll have more to say about that in the days and weeks to come. But I am open for business. If you want my byline or my expertise in energy and climate, now is the time to reach out and get on my schedule before one of my other suitors makes me an offer I can’t refuse.

While I strongly disagree with the decision to deprioritize what I consider the most urgent story of this lifetime, HuffPost is filled with many talented reporters and editors, people I consider true friends who will remain there and continue to do excellent work. I will be reading them regularly, and encourage you to do the same.

My final two stories, a two-part series that’s been in the works for months now, are due out this weekend. I’ll post an update on those once they publish. Stay tuned.

[Chris D'Angelo @c_m_dangelo]

After 9 years, my time at HuffPost has come to an end.

Amid another round of bloodbath layoffs this week, I raised my hand for a buyout — a decision that stung but felt right for me.

I'm outraged for all my wonderful colleagues who are losing jobs due to no fault of their own.

[shruti rajkumar @shruti_rajkumar]

I’m so sad to share that I was laid off by @HuffPost today. My heart goes out to my colleagues who were also impacted by this round of layoffs.

This job has been so amazing and I’m forever grateful.

I’m still very overwhelmed by the news, so more from me soon❤️

[Candice Frederick @ReelTalker]

Welp. I've been laid off.
I'm so proud of my work at HuffPost. But I want to give a shout out to my Culture crew @_TARYNitUP @marinafang @IAMNJERA, and to @heyerinevans for holding us down for as long. It's rare to be on a team with all women of color. We were amazing together.

[HuffPost Union @HuffPostUnion]

A statement from the HuffPost Union @WGAEast on this week’s job cuts

[Dirce Toca @dircetoca]

Today so many of my talented, brilliant, colleagues at @HuffPost were laid off, including veterans of 10+ years, and where each and every one them was vital to delivering factual, reliable coverage, especially in this current climate. Pls consider donating https://t.co/d35PHCIbli