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THE DRASTIC AND SIMULTANEOUS DOWNSIZING of the New York Times, New York Post, and New York Daily News, plus the related constellation of nonprofit outlets, was announced in a press conference in Rockefeller Square. Evidently our bosses felt that sharing the news in public would protect them from the worst of their employees’ rage. But Rita Jacobs, who was covering the event for the Post, threw her shoes at Jason, like al-Zaidi had at Bush Jr. after we’d invaded Iraq. A few of us also threw our shoes, which was nice, cathartic, but then we were jobless and had to retrieve our shoes. “I’m not going to not get my shoes,” Rita told me, when I bumped into her onstage. Somehow the need to ground every article in a “real, human story” persisted despite the decimation of the journalism industry. Often a policy piece was all that was needed, but the editors always demanded these emotional details. Lee and Akash and I sat around Lee’s kitchen table one evening, eating crackers and olives, ponder

The drastic and simultaneous downsizing of the New York Times, New York Post, and New York Daily News, plus the related constellation of nonprofit outlets, was announced in a press conference in Rockefeller Square. Evidently our bosses felt that sharing the news in public would protect them from the worst of their employees’ rage. But Rita Jacobs, who was covering the event for the Post, threw her shoes at Jason, like al-Zaidi had at Bush Jr. after we’d invaded Iraq. A few of us also threw our shoes, which was nice, cathartic, but then we were jobless and had to retrieve our shoes. “I’m not…

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