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Alex Noudelman – Facebook Founder Slammed For Destroying 100 Year Old Magazine
Curated by Alex Noudelman
It was announced on Thursday that Gabriel Snyder, formerly of Gawker and the Atlantic Wire, would replace Franklin Foer as editor of The New Republic.
Just weeks after the widely respected magazine celebrated its 100th anniversary, owners said that they plan to turn the publication into a “vertically integrated digital media company.” Leon Wieseltier, the magazine’s literary editor for more than 30 years, is on his way out as well.
Not long after the news broke, Chris Hughes, a Facebook cofounder who is the current edito r-in-chief and publisher of TNR, was slammed by the media elite. It’s a perfect example of the long-standing divide between the Silicon Valley mentality of “disrupt everything” and the tradition-heavy East Coast media scene.
Mass resignations from the magazine (many from contributing editors) were announced via Twitter.
The question that remains to be answered is this: If Chris Hughes wanted to create a new digital-media platform all along, why’d he bother buying The New Republic in the first place?
About Alex Noudelman
Alex Noudelman is a digital marketing expert as well as educator with 6 years of marketing and teaching experience. He received his Honors B.A. from York University and a Masters in Adolescent Education from D’Youville College.
