Posted on 10/09/2013 9:41:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Daily Beast let go of two dozen writers and editors last week, insiders said on Tuesday, reportedly leaving the embattled website with roughly 65 staffers, about what it launched with five years ago.
Most of those laid off were in New York, though some were also in Washington, while in Los Angeles, all but one employee, senior writer Andrew Romano, was let go (senior writer Allison Samuels was offered the opportunity to relocate to New York but declined; she will remain a contributing editor to The Daily Beast). The last day for those laid off was Friday, insiders said, and by Tuesday their Daily Beast e-mail accounts had already gone inactive.
The Daily Beast, which recently reversed an ill-fated merger with Newsweek magazine, is owned by Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp. The Daily Beast and IAC declined to comment on Tuesday.....
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How many writers do they need to rewrite White House talking points?
MMcCain? She can be seen on PIVOT-TV, with a subscription to any other porn channel.
//sarc
Did they fire Meghan McCain?
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Article doesn’t mention her.
One way or another Newsweak is going down permanently.
No wonder Kirsten Powers had a face lift/makeover and is on FoxNews Now!!!!
Powers is jerk! They will never fire her though!
It should be sold to AOL! LOL!
Journalism is downsizing in this roaring Obama Economy?
How can that be?
These fired “The Daily Beast” staffers should start a rival publication: “The Daily Brute”. (Referencing Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel “Scoop”, which first used those names for rival British papers.)
but at least they can depend on obamacare to allow they ‘do what they really want to do in life’...oh no wait...
Kirsten Powers is only 43
I doubt she has had a facelift but more likely some botox or restalyne injections at most
She is not gorgeous but is attractive and fairly feminine and warm for a lefty
I could provide her serious toe crunching pleasures for a week or two were I not already captured by a one in a million example of her species
We would have to keep subject matter light and focus on the business at hand
Did they fire Meghan McCain?
BOY I HOPE NOT SHE’S WONDERFUL AND...WELL.. GINCHY....!
Arianna Huffington set the standard model for this.
Start a website, pay your writers NOTHING, sell lots of ads, then sell it to some schmuck for a 1/3rd BILLION DOLLARS....
Everything Liberal Tina Brown touches turns into a money-losing pile of excrement, but she is still the queen of the New York Media Part/Social circuit, and a single word from this witch can make or destroy a media/political career.
The roaring is roaring flames burning down everything that used to work.
I’ve been there occasionally..usually when Kirsten Powers has an interesting column. One thing in their favor, the web design/home page layout..is superb..it attracts the viewer...whoever did it is really good
Let’s see 65 minus two dozen brings them in well under the magic obamacare 50 employee rule. Dollars to donuts they are victims of the law they cheerlead.
“Most of those laid off were in New York, though some were also in Washington, while in Los Angeles, all but one employee, senior writer Andrew Romano, was let go”
This is terrible.../s
...for verb tense violations.
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