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Newsweek fires editor-in-chief, deputy editor and 3 reporters...
NY Daily News ^ | 2/5/18 | STEPHEN REX BROWN, GRAHAM RAYMAN

Posted on 02/05/2018 10:56:08 AM PST by markomalley

Chaos roiled the Newsweek offices Monday with the firings of the editor-in-chief, his number two and three reporters — possibly in retaliation for their unfavorable coverage of the company.

Johnathan Davis, the co-founder/CEO of Newsweek Media Group, ordered the firing of top editor Bob Roe, his deputy Ken Li and reporters Celeste Katz and Josh Saul, as well as Josh Keefe, a reporter for the International Business Times, a sister company, a source said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobroe; celestekatz; dailybeast; johnathandavis; joshkeefe; joshsaul; kenli; mediawingofthednc; newsweak; newsweek; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; yourefired
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1 posted on 02/05/2018 10:56:08 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Newsweek hasn’t been relevant for years.


2 posted on 02/05/2018 10:56:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: markomalley

Isn’t that about 90% of their employees these days?


3 posted on 02/05/2018 10:58:21 AM PST by circlecity
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To: markomalley

If they did this 6 month or a year ago..good job!


4 posted on 02/05/2018 10:58:58 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: markomalley

Schadenfreude.............


5 posted on 02/05/2018 10:59:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: SeekAndFind

Didn’t Newsweek get raided by NYPD a few weeks ago and they took pics of computer equip ?

Related or no ?


6 posted on 02/05/2018 10:59:30 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: markomalley

I guess they didn’t wade far enough into the swamp.


7 posted on 02/05/2018 10:59:36 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: markomalley
Newsweek fires editor-in-chief, deputy editor and 3 reporters in possible retaliation for negative coverage


8 posted on 02/05/2018 11:00:09 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: markomalley

I’m guessing sexual harassment.


9 posted on 02/05/2018 11:00:35 AM PST by Brilliant
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..oh, and because of negative Trump coverage


10 posted on 02/05/2018 11:00:52 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Hmmmm.


11 posted on 02/05/2018 11:01:04 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: markomalley

Feel good post of the day.


12 posted on 02/05/2018 11:01:22 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: circlecity
Isn’t that about 90% of their employees these days?

Yep, and about half their readership if we exclude a few dental offices in Manhattan.

13 posted on 02/05/2018 11:02:44 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: SeekAndFind

I think the last time I read Newsweek was around 2001. I’ll go out on the limb and predict that they disappear within two years.


14 posted on 02/05/2018 11:03:01 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: markomalley

Newsweak is still in bidness?


15 posted on 02/05/2018 11:03:24 AM PST by Paladin2 (e)
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To: markomalley

They don’t need editors and reporters anymore. They just reprint DNC talking points.


16 posted on 02/05/2018 11:05:21 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Is this the equivalent of putting a rabid dog down?


17 posted on 02/05/2018 11:07:09 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Exactly.


18 posted on 02/05/2018 11:07:11 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: markomalley

Hellooo? Anybody out there?

According to the story, it is NOT about content related interests, but according to the other link in the story it’s investigating some financial hankie panky, and it’s part of a longer running Manhattan DA investigation into corporate economic corruption.


19 posted on 02/05/2018 11:08:39 AM PST by RitaOK (n)
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To: markomalley

Newsweek? Wasnt that a little magazine about fifty years ago?


20 posted on 02/05/2018 11:10:09 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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