Politics Daily tells the tale of the axing of Congressional Quarterly longtime senior editor Brian Nutting. His transgression? Nutting had the temerity to question dozens of staff layoffs at CQ and its sister publication Roll Call — after employees had been told that both publications were profitable.
FishbowlDC has a copy of Nutting’s email.
Those few news hounds with longevity still left at the Arizona Republic should be verrry careful.
And unlike CQ and Roll Call, the shrinking Republic makes no claims of profitablity. It’s dyin’.