The Scoop: Layoffs come for both legacy and new media outlets

Plus: Sam Altman’s masterful dodging; advertisers don’t like being told to go (expletive) themselves.  
In a familiar but still depressing end of year rite of passage, media outlets are laying off staff. 
Condé Nast, which owns a diverse portfolio of high-end publications, will lose 5% of its staff, or about 300 people, Variety reported. Vox Media, which owns The Verge and New York magazine, will cut 4% of jobs. At the beginning of the year, it laid off 7% of st