New Republic magazine staffers resign en masse
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Tens of staffers at the venerable Washington, D.C. journal The New Republic announced Friday that they would leave the publication rather than go along with a radical restructuring of the outlet under its current operating team.
Approximately 28 staffers and contributors said in a group memo they had resigned. On Thursday, the publishing company, owned by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, removed top editor Franklin Foer and longtime senior staffer Leon Wieseltier and said Gabriel Snyder, a veteran of several prominent digital media outlets, would take over as editor.
Print frequency is to be reduced severely and operations are to move to New York City from Washington.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The New Republic celebrated its 100th anniversary last month.