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| ‘Mass resignations’ at The New Republic follow editors’ departure | ‘Mass resignations’ at The New Republic follow editors’ departure |
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| The shakeup at the top of the masthead at The New Republic is reverberating all through the once-high-flying magazine’s staff as more than a dozen senior editors and a longer list of contributing editors quit on Friday following the resignation of editor Franklin Foer and literary editor Leon Wieseltier. | The shakeup at the top of the masthead at The New Republic is reverberating all through the once-high-flying magazine’s staff as more than a dozen senior editors and a longer list of contributing editors quit on Friday following the resignation of editor Franklin Foer and literary editor Leon Wieseltier. |
| Contributing editor Ryan Lizza, a writer for the New Yorker, tweeted a list of the staffers who followed Foer and Wieseltier to the door. | Contributing editor Ryan Lizza, a writer for the New Yorker, tweeted a list of the staffers who followed Foer and Wieseltier to the door. |
| BREAKING: Mass resignations just submitted at @TNR Full list… pic.twitter.com/SdM0VPQ8Et— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) December 5, 2014 | BREAKING: Mass resignations just submitted at @TNR Full list… pic.twitter.com/SdM0VPQ8Et— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) December 5, 2014 |
| BREAKING: Mass resignations just submitted at @TNR Full list… pic.twitter.com/SdM0VPQ8Et | BREAKING: Mass resignations just submitted at @TNR Full list… pic.twitter.com/SdM0VPQ8Et |
| The massive upheaval was touched off by the decision of TNR’s owner, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, and his new CEO, former Yahoo News executive Guy Vidra, to change the mission of the company from a magazine-focused institution to a digital media company with an expanded Manhattan office. | The massive upheaval was touched off by the decision of TNR’s owner, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, and his new CEO, former Yahoo News executive Guy Vidra, to change the mission of the company from a magazine-focused institution to a digital media company with an expanded Manhattan office. |
| Staffers met at Frank Foer’s house in D.C. last night for what they called a “wake” for the magazine. At the meeting, people said they would support Foer by tendering their resignations. | Staffers met at Frank Foer’s house in D.C. last night for what they called a “wake” for the magazine. At the meeting, people said they would support Foer by tendering their resignations. |
| By Friday afternoon, the list of staffers and contributing editors tendering their resignations grew, with more than 20 contributing editors severing ties with the magazine. | |
| In a statement e-mailed to reporters, Hughes said he was “saddened” by the resignations and wished the departing staffers well. “This is a time of transition, but I am excited to work with our team – both new and old alike – as we pave a new way forward,” it read. “The singular importance of The New Republic as an institution can and will be preserved, because it’s bigger than any one of us.” | |
| Former senior editor Julia Ioffe addressed the debacle in a Facebook posting: “The narrative you’re going to see Chris and Guy put out there is that I and the rest of my colleagues who quit today were dinosaurs, who think that the Internet is scary and that Buzzfeed is a slur. Don’t believe them,” she wrote. “We’re not afraid of change. We have always embraced it.” | |
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