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Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out
« on: February 05, 2018, 09:23:27 pm »

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by Hadas Gold
February 5, 2018: 2:55 PM ET

Employees at Newsweek have been told that editor-in-chief Bob Roe and executive editor Ken Li have been fired, sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

A reporter, Celeste Katz, who had written articles about financial issues at the magazine as well as an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's office into its parent company, Newsweek Media Group, was also let go, the sources said. Katz was seen cleaning out her desk, one source close to the newsroom said.

Staff in Newsweek's New York offices were told they could stop working and go home for the day on Monday afternoon, the source close to the newsroom told CNN.

"Can confirm I was fired. I know nothing else. Can say nothing else yet," Roe told CNN in an email.

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http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/05/media/newsweek-editors-out/index.html
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Re: Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2018, 09:31:11 pm »
Weren't they recently caught buying online add hits to scam advertisers into buying ads?

That could well be criminal activity, scamming third parities out of money.

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Re: Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2018, 09:33:48 pm »
Weren't they recently caught buying online add hits to scam advertisers into buying ads?

That could well be criminal activity, scamming third parities out of money.


Everyone was wondering, like NYT, how they stay in business with such low readership. I guess now we know.
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists.

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Re: Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2018, 09:54:17 pm »
Owner: "Why didn't someone tell me I own Newsweek? How did that happen?"
Staffer: "It was your White Elephant gift at the Christmas Party. You had been in the eggnog pretty good"
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Re: Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2018, 10:02:53 pm »
Owner: "Why didn't someone tell me I own Newsweek? How did that happen?"
Staffer: "It was your White Elephant gift at the Christmas Party. You had been in the eggnog pretty good"

 Sidney Harman purchased Newsweek on August 2, 2010, for $1.  I think he used a coupon.

https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/deal-for-newsweek-close-to-completion/
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Re: Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2018, 10:12:32 pm »
Newsweak has been circling the toilet bowl for some time now. 
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Re: Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2018, 10:40:58 pm »
Weren't they recently caught buying online add hits to scam advertisers into buying ads?

That could well be criminal activity, scamming third parities out of money.

They were recently raided by the NYPD.

https://nypost.com/2018/01/18/nypd-officers-raid-newsweek-headquarters/
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