NPR – by Krishnadev CalamurWe have more news today on The New Republic, which on Thursday announced that it was cutting its publication schedule, moving its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to New York and rebranding as a digital media company — decisions that prompted the departure of editor Franklin Foer and longtime literary editor Leon Wieseltier.
The majority of the magazine’s masthead resigned Friday, including senior editors Julia Ioffe, Noam Scheiber, executive editors Rachel Morris and Greg Veis, and contributing editors Anne Applebaum and Jonathan Chait. (You can find the full list over at Politico.)
It has emerged that Foer resigned after discovering that TNR‘s owner, Chris Hughes, had already hired Gabriel Snyder, who previously held senior jobs at Bloomberg, The Atlantic’s website and Gawker, as his replacement.
Politico reported that late Thursday several staffers gathered at Foer’s Washington residence for what was described as “a funeral” for the magazine.
Hughes, writing on Twitter, said he was “saddened by the loss of such great talent. And, he added, “The singular importance of The New Republic as an institution can and will be preserved, because it’s bigger than any one of us.”
To many Jew names for me to consider this having been a good thing.
“…TNR‘s owner, Chris Hughes, had already hired Gabriel Snyder, who previously held senior jobs at Bloomberg,…”
Possible red flag, katie? 😉
I was thinking the same thing, I am surprised they did not hold out for some big money!!