Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has draw the ire of the media establishment for trying to turn The New Republic into a Web-traffic fiend like Buzzfeed of Huffington Post. Among with TNR’s new
CEO, former Yahoo News executive Guy Vidra, “Hughes’s … decision to abruptly change the 100-year-old journal … into what Hughes calls a ‘digital media company’
… and in the process get rid of top editor Franklin Foer … and literary editor Leon Wieseltier … has prompted a mass exodus by more than two dozen senior editors and
writers,” The Daily Beast writes. With his Facebook billions, Hughes bought TNR in 2012.
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