TNR Mass Exodus

TNR sold their souls two decades ago.  In recent years, they tried to backtrack a bit from the vileness of 2004, but their god Satan is a jealous god, and they couldn't pull away from neoconservatism. And now they are in collapse. As they should be!:

There is a mass exodus underway at The New Republic, with more than 30 editors resigning from the distinguished liberal institution on Friday.

The resignations were prompted by Thursday's big shakeup. Longtime editor Franklin Foer and literary editor Leon Wieseltier each announced that they were leaving their posts amid some sweeping changes at the century-old magazine.

Guy Vidra, a former Yahoo News executive who was hired as TNR's CEO in September, announced in a memo that the magazine would cut its publication schedule in half, going from 20 issues per year to 10. Vidra also said that the Washington institution would relocate its headquarters to New York City.

It's a watershed moment for TNR and its owner Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who bought the magazine in 2012. Hughes has made no secret of his digital-centric vision for TNR. In an interview with the New York Times last month, he said he no longer refers to TNR as a magazine, instead describing it as a "digital media company."

The moves, and the way Foer and Wieseltier were reportedly treated by Hughes and Vidra, have angered many veteran TNR contributors.

According to The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove, Foer didn't discover he had been replaced as the top editor by Bloomberg Media's Gabriel Snyder until Gawker reported the rumor on Thursday afternoon. After seeing the Gawker post, Foer called Hughes to get confirmation.

On Friday morning, ahead of a scheduled 10 a.m. ET staff meeting, 10 contributing editors, including New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait and The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, submitted their resignations to Hughes.

There is a mass exodus underway at The New Republic, with more than 30 editors resigning from the distinguished liberal institution on Friday.


The resignations were prompted by Thursday's big shakeup. Longtime editor Franklin Foer and literary editor Leon Wieseltier each announced that they were leaving their posts amid some sweeping changes at the century-old magazine.

Guy Vidra, a former Yahoo News executive who was hired as TNR's CEO in September, announced in a memo that the magazine would cut its publication schedule in half, going from 20 issues per year to 10. Vidra also said that the Washington institution would relocate its headquarters to New York City.

It's a watershed moment for TNR and its owner Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who bought the magazine in 2012. Hughes has made no secret of his digital-centric vision for TNR. In an interview with the New York Times last month, he said he no longer refers to TNR as a magazine, instead describing it as a "digital media company."

The moves, and the way Foer and Wieseltier were reportedly treated by Hughes and Vidra, have angered many veteran TNR contributors.

According to The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove, Foer didn't discover he had been replaced as the top editor by Bloomberg Media's Gabriel Snyder until Gawker reported the rumor on Thursday afternoon. After seeing the Gawker post, Foer called Hughes to get confirmation.

On Friday morning, ahead of a scheduled 10 a.m. ET staff meeting, 10 contributing editors, including New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait and The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, submitted their resignations to Hughes.

...By Friday afternoon, the number of reported resignations had swelled to 45.