Facebook Prince Purges The New Republic: Inside the Destruction of a 100-Year-Old Magazine

THE DAILY BEAST
by Lloyd Grove
December 5, 2014

….Hughes’s and Vidra’s decision to abruptly change the 100-year-old journal of politics, policy, art and culture into what Hughes calls a “digital media company” and relocate to Manhattan—and in the process get rid of top editor Franklin Foer, who has run the magazine on and off since 2006, and literary editor Leon Wieseltier, a major figure at TNR since the early 1980s—has prompted a mass exodus by more than two dozen senior editors and writers….READ MORE

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