Unfortunate news, particularly so close to the holidays: TVNewser is reporting this evening that CNN has laid off around staffers, including photographers and editors, across its offices in Atlanta, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Miami. The layoffs, according to a note to staff by senior VP Jack Womack, come after a 3-year analysis [...]

Twenty-One people won’t be showing up to work at the Milk Street Cafe on Wednesday, and it’s not an act of solidarity with the Occupy Oakland general strike. The owner of the eatery, Marc Epstein, told FOX News that he had to lay off the workers because business has hit a wall. The culprit? Occupy Wall Street.

This week Congress officially started their month-long summer recess, because now that we’ve passed a debt ceiling bill, there’s nothing else on the docket, right? Right? Well, it turns out that while Congress was busy debating the debt ceiling, they did not reauthorize funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, leading to a partial shutdown of the agency all across the country. Thousands of employees have been laid off, and the FAA has ceased work on all construction projects.

The aftermath of AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post has–as expected–resulted in layoffs for more than 200 AOL employees in the U.S., according to TechCrunch. The HuffPo deal, which closed on Monday, means Aol is shedding employees across various properties, the majority of them in editorial.

Worldwide, the layoffs total about 1,000–the majority (about 750 workers) in India, where TechCrunch reports 600 employees will be fired, and another 150 shifted into contractor’s roles.

Michael Arrington took to TechCrunch (which, you may recall, was acquired by Aol late last year) to discuss a memo from Aol CEO Tim Armstrong on changes facing the company in the wake of its recent, and much-publicized, acquisition of Arianna Huffington‘s Huffington Post. As past of the move, Huffington will oversee editorial across several of Aol’s blogs.

The memo comes on the heels Aol’s former president media David Eun announcing that he is resigning from the company, which Armstrong chalks up to the realization that “there wasn’t a fit for what he is looking for at this point in his career.”

The Los Angeles Times‘ Matea Gold reports that ABC News has completed a massive round of buyouts and layoffs, as the network let go 22 employees yesterday.

The process began two months ago, and has included some high profile correspondents. But according to a memo from ABC News President David Westin (inside), “it is time to look forward.”

ABC News business correspondent Betsy Stark is the latest journalist cut today by the network as it looks to trim roughly 20% of the entire news division, meaning hundreds of jobs lost through buyout or layoff.

Stark had been with the network for 12 years. More details and her goodbye note to staff inside.

Layoffs have finally arrived at the New York Times. After completing a round of buyouts last week, which totaled 74 (slightly more than was expected) the paper yesterday started laying off the remaining 26 people. Earlier this year executive editor Bill Keller said the paper was looking to shed 100 people. Here’s the list thus far.

When Gawker reported that Wired boss Chris Anderson was too busy promoting his book to be present on layoff day, the tech editor took to his Twitter to defend himself. But Anderson angrily taking the bait of his ex-employee is exactly what Ryan Tate and Gawker want.

Last week, news spread that the New York Times would need to cut 100 of its 1,250 editorial staffers by year’s end. But instead of just flat out firing people, the Times decided to lead with a buyout option open to any newsroom employee. When the packages arrived they had some surprising details about the newsroom, as uncovered by the New York Observer, who managed to snag an envelope.

Yesterday afternoon the New York Times announced it would be cutting 100 newsroom jobs, about 8% total, by the end of the year. The layoff announcement reportedly took the newsroom by surprise it also apparently put the scare into NYT.com readers, who quickly turned the comments section into an online petition of sorts.

Mediaite first reported that layoffs at Vogue would be announced yesterday. Peter Kafka at All Things D later reported that at least six have been laid off (we had heard that seven were let go). Today we are hearing that another title will be letting staffers go, though its unclear at this point which magazine will be making the cuts.

It has been widely reported that nearly every surviving title at Condé Nast has been tasked with cutting 25% of their overall budgets. We also know that the Editors-in-Chief at each title have been given the leeway to make the cuts as they see fit, on their own schedule. The timing of these cuts has been closely guarded until now, and it remains unclear when cuts will come for each title.

UPDATE – All Things D reports that at least six have been laid off.