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The NBC News logo, seen at Rockefeller Center in New York City. UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Layoffs that NBC News staffers had been bracing for finally got under way at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Wednesday, with the company confirming around 150 staffers are being impacted by the cuts. The reductions come as NBC prepares for a spinoff that will, among other things, transfer cable networks MSNBC and CNBC into a new publicly traded company, Versant Media Group, while NBC News remains part of Comcast’s NBCUniversal division. Preparation is still under way for the ultimate launch of Versant — but given that there will no longer be a need for things like shared infrastructure and newsgathering, NBC News has decided to go ahead and eliminate dozens of positions now. That move also follows smaller, more targeted jobs cuts in recent weeks, such as a round (reported by Status) involving several employees laid off last month from NBC’s graphics department — a resource that both NBC News and MSNBC had been sharing. Today’s cuts make up about 2% of the NBCU News Group workforce, and they’re scattered throughout NBC News. At the same time, not every NBC News employee impacted by the layoffs will be leaving the company. That’s because there are currently 140 active open roles across the news group, while the company has also confirmed about a dozen of the eliminated positions are being repurposed as new roles. All this comes as NBCU News Group chair Cesar Conde said in a network memo last week that a marketing campaign is in the works that will pave the way for the new era at the company. “Coming off the successful creation of our new daily podcast Here’s the Scoop,” he wrote, “we are preparing to launch our NBC News…

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