The New Republic editor Gabriel Snyder has brought in four new staffers, the first major moves since owner Chris Hughes' widely panned ouster of Franklin Foer and staff exodus.
Jamil Smith, a producer for MSNBC for "The Rachel Maddow Show" and "Melissa Harris-Perry," joins TNR later this month as a senior editor to write about race, politics and gender, work on the launch of a podcast series, and edit articles.
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Elspeth Reeve, former politics editor of The Atlantic's The Wire and a former reporter and fact checker for TNR, returns as a senior editor. She was recently on the staff of The Racket, the digital magazine start-up scuttled by First Look Media after the exit of Matt Taibbi.
Also joining TNR is Bijan Stephen, an editorial assistant at Vanity Fair who takes an associate editor slot.
Snyder, who called the hires the "first wave" for TNR in New York and Washington, also hired Sarah Lawrence College poetry professor Cathy Park Hong as poetry editor.
Trump Media & Technology Group today reported a $58.2M net loss on $4.1M in 2023 revenues, a disclosure that drove its stock price down 22.6 percent to $47.96.
Barry Pollack, an attorney at Wall Street’s Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, has registered Julian Assange as a client with the Justice Dept. “out of an abundance of caution.”
Paramount Global to slash 800 jobs in what chief executive Bob Bakish calls part of an effort to “return the company to earnings growth"... Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is exiting at the end of the month due to disagreements with chief executive Gus Wenner over the direction the magazine is taking... The New York Times broke the $1 billion barrier in annual revenue from digital subscriptions in 2023... Press Forward is investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms.
The majority of news articles are read within the first three days of publication, according to a recent report.
The Los Angeles Times gives pink slips to 115 people or 20 percent of its newsroom staff... TIME is also laying off about 30 employees, which is approximately 15 percent of its editorial staff... The Baltimore Banner, which was launched by Stewart Bainum in 2022 after he failed to buy the Baltimore Sun, added 500 subscribers per day in the three days following Sinclair Broadcast Group's deal to purchase the Sun.
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