Copyrighted Image? DMCA | The shakeup at the top of the masthead at The New Republic is reverberating all through the once-high-flying magazine's staff as more than a dozen senior editors and a longer list of contributing editors quit on Friday following the resignation of editor Franklin Foer and literary editor Leon Wieseltier. The massive upheaval was touched off by the decision of TNR's owner, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, and his new CEO, former Yahoo News executive Guy Vidra, to change the mission of the company from a magazine-focused institution to a digital media company with an expanded Manhattan office. |