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In October of that year, Doubleday, a division of Random House, announced that they would lay off 16 people, representing approximately 10% of its workforce.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/books/29book.html|title=Doubleday Publishing Lays Off 10% of Its Employees|last=Rich|first=Motoko|date=October 28, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 27, 2018|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107115928/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/books/29book.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In early December 2008, which became known as Black Wednesday in publishing circles, many publishers including Random House took steps by restructuring their divisions and laying off employees.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/new-editor-at-random-house-layoffs-at-doubleday-and-broadway/|title=New Editor at Random House, Layoffs at Doubleday and Broadway|last=Rich|first=Motoko|date=December 17, 2008|website=ArtsBeat|access-date=May 17, 2018|archive-date=September 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928102126/https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/new-editor-at-random-house-layoffs-at-doubleday-and-broadway/|url-status=live}}</ref>
The reorganization consolidated and created three [[Susan Kamil]] was named editorial director for Dial Press and editor-in-chief of Random House imprints reporting to Gina Centrello, the president and publisher of the Random House Publishing Group.<ref name=":1" /> There were layoffs in the [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] imprint (now part of [[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf Publishing Group]]) and [[Dial Press]], [[Bantam Books|Bantam Dell]], and [[Spiegel & Grau]] were moved from Doubleday over to the Random House imprints. Random House also has an entertainment production arm for film and television, Random House Studio; one release in 2011 was ''[[One Day (2011 film)|One Day]]''. The company also creates story content for media including video games, social networks on the web, and mobile platforms.
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