MAJOR Shakeup At #FAKENEWS Newsweek Puts Staff Into PANIC MODE

Newsweek may be dead as we know it.

They certainly haven’t had a great couple of months. Their offices were raided by police, they’ve been caught in #fakenews after #fakenews story, they employ a pedo-sympathizer…

Yeah. Not great.

Anyway… something’s about to GO DOWN… and people are in full blown PANIC MODE.

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 https://t.co/sSNWx976FY

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) February 5, 2018

According to that:

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.

Senior writer Matthew Cooper tendered his resignation on Monday as a result of the chaos, saying in a resignation letter obtained by CNN that he has never “seen more reckless leadership.”

“It’s the installation of editors, not Li and Roe, who recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness, that leaves me most despondent not only for Newsweek but for other publications that don’t heed the lessons of this publication’s fall,” Cooper said in the letter.

HOLY CRAP. THIS IS HUGE.

Newsweek in complete chaos, alcohol is out, remaining staff considered walkout, second insider tells mehttps://t.co/Cf7TMo7tik pic.twitter.com/NcirswTvLM

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 5, 2018

Yeeeeah… I’d feel bad. But remember. This is the same rag that’s been pushing the idea that Hillary can still be president and EGREGIOUSLY misquoted Eric Trump to make him sound like a greedy racist…

So yeah. I won’t cry myself to sleep over this.

IT’S HAPPENING https://t.co/ZfJsIDWLEk

— Steve Skojec (@SteveSkojec) February 5, 2018

Oh dear. What a shame 😁 https://t.co/BDhpTjYpdI

— Mimi (@mimimayes13) February 5, 2018

Sounds like we may now speak of Newsweek in past tense. https://t.co/hD5UJY6WK5

— Michael Haz (@Michael_Haz) February 5, 2018

OMG. Saturday Night Massacre at liberal propaganda site.https://t.co/2KHTbradUA

— Stuart (@Ringo6) February 5, 2018

Little sympathy for ideologue propagandists masquerading as news media. https://t.co/rAu9Vosnil

— Kevin Brandl (@BrandlKvn) February 5, 2018

The former Newsweek editors turned the magazine into left wing garbage making Salon look centrist. Good riddance. https://t.co/pCgK7QFSTN

— David Morgan (@StarCoreOne02) February 5, 2018

Good riddance INDEED!

BYYYYEEEEEEEE.