8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#577437 at 2018-03-07 14:16:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #711: Open 24 Hours Edition
Resignations / Firings
NEWSWEEK
Newsweek's owners announced a "series of strategic structural changes" to the media company on Tuesday, amid turmoil at the magazine that has included a law enforcement raid and wide-ranging resignations and firings.
…after the magazine's editor-in-chief, executive news director and several senior writers were fired for investigating its parent company following a raid by the Manhattan district attorney.
…Editor-in-chief Bob Roe, executive news director Ken Li and senior reporters Josh Saul and Celeste Katz were all fired on Feb. 5. Veteran Newsweek journalist Matt Cooper also resigned, along with several other writers, in February, as reports emerged of a punishing workplace culture and intense traffic demands on writers.
In late January, Newsweek Media Group co-owner and CEO Etienne Uzac and his wife, Marion Kim, both resigned. Kim served as head of finance for the media group.
http:// thehill.com/homenews/media/377046-newsweek-announces-strategic-structural-changes-amid-turmoil
#287173 at 2018-02-06 19:30:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #351: Shot Heard Around The World (Find The Video) Edition
In a Monday morning massacre, Newsweek fired Editor-in-Chief Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and investigative reporter Celeste Katz, The Post has learned.
All three were working on a story about the news site's parent company and its possible financial ties to Olivet University, a fundamentalist Christian college founded by the controversial Korean-American pastor Rev. David Jang.
Hours after the shocking dismissals, the parent company, Newsweek Media Group, appointed Nancy Cooper, the managing editor of sister title International Business Times, as acting editor of Newsweek.
In the Cooper announcement, NMG did not mention the firings - noting only that Roe and Li would be leaving the publication "immediately."
Newsweek has been in a gathering cloud of controversy, especially since Jan. 18, when dozens of investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney's office raided the site's Lower Manhattan offices - and left hours later with 18 computer servers.
The DA, in the midst of a 18-month probe of NMG, is said to be focusing on its financial ties to Olivet.
https:// nypost.
com/2018/02/05/newsweek-fires-top-editors-covering-probe-into-parent-company/
#279570 at 2018-02-06 00:35:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #341: Bakers in Short Supply Edition
Newsweek on Monday fired all of its top staff amid turmoil that has upended the newsroom.
In a company meeting, several editors announced that the outlet had fired Editor in Chief Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and reporters Celeste Katz, Josh Saul, and International Business Times editor Josh Keefe.. . Etienne Uzac, the owner of Newsweek's parent company, and Marion Kim, the company's finance director, stepped down last week. The company also announced last week that Chief Content Officer Dayan Candappa was put on leave following harassment allegations.
www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek-guts-its-top-edit-staff-amid-legal-turmoil/
Sorry if it's a repeat.
#276804 at 2018-02-05 19:22:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #337: Too Much Dough Edition
Uh-Oh….lol
>Sources tell me staff at Newsweek have been told top editors are out and staff have been told they can go home for the day. Staff are worried and don't know what's going on
twitter.com/Hadas_Gold/status/960587360814731267
Heres the article:
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.
The news comes during a turbulent time for the magazine. Just last week the co-owner and chairman of Newsweek Media Group, Etienne Uzac, and his wife Marion Kim, who acted as the company's finance director, both stepped down.
Last month the Manhattan District Attorney's office raided the company's offices, taking several servers. Newsweek itself, in a story co-written by Katz, reported that the raid was part of a long-running investigation into the company's finances.
Li could not immediately be reached for comment, though he tweeted, "What a day to leave my charger at home." Katz declined to comment. A spokesman for Newsweek said the company would not have any comment on personnel matters.