The Washington Post is looking to downsize their newsroom. At least they must be since they’re hiring WSJ’s ex-managing editor Marcus Brauchli to head up the newsroom. If I were looking for a toolish neo-con to fire a bunch of people I had working for me, he’d be top on the list.
Brauchli’s biggest impact on The Wall Street Journal was helping facilitate a buyout by News Corp and then get left in the dust when Murdoch didn’t view him as essential to production. Oh, and he helped establish WSJ. (note the period), a so-called luxury magazine, since the world obviously needs more of those.
I don’t doubt the man’s journalistic skills, but I do doubt his managing ones. Some might say he was caught between a rock and a hard place at WSJ, trying to appease Murdoch’s demands for altering the paper to be less of a niche publication while trying to assure the staff that they would still have jobs in the New Corp. era. But as an ex-staffer, I can't say that he ever made me feel anything but irritated.
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