{"id":633602,"date":"2026-10-01T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633602\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:26:09","slug":"android-central-will-continue-despite-laying-off-its-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633602\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Central \u2018will continue\u2019 despite laying off its staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Yesterday, four of the six staffers on Android Central\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/about#section-meet-the-android-central-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">staff page<\/a> posted publicly about the layoffs, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/shrutishekar_i-was-part-of-the-layoffs-at-future-yesterday-activity-7511414208626913281-xCTF?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAIV1iYBHi7OPybalzIKilWBO4bTY5vJb8c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shruti Shekar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/bhollyov_as-of-today-my-time-at-android-central-has-activity-7511172120819810305-Opf9?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAIV1iYBHi7OPybalzIKilWBO4bTY5vJb8c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derrek Lee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7511134110216667137\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harish Jonnalagadda<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7511184016037814272\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Sutrich<\/a>, and former senior editor Namerah Saud Fatmi updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/namerah-saud-fatmi-6132541b8\/?isSelfProfile=false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her LinkedIn<\/a> to indicate that her tenure at Android Central had ended. Both Lee, the site\u2019s managing editor, and Sutrich confirmed that all remaining staff were laid off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The former staffers weren\u2019t told whether the site would shut down. Today, new posts have been published to the site, though they are from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/android-central-s-freelance-contributors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the site\u2019s freelance contributors<\/a> rather than the previous full-time staffers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cFuture will continue to publish Android Central. We\u2019ll share further information about the future of the site in due course,\u201d Future spokesperson Nicole Martineau tells The Verge, adding: \u201cWe will not be providing any further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2090,133,85,46,321,920,125],"class_list":["post-633602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-google","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}