Marci Alboher, a NY Times columnist who used to write an employment blog called “Shifting Careers” for the NY Times would now be shifting her own career as NY Times has decided to shun her blog. According to her own blog posting:
It is hard to call this a layoff since I’m not an employee of the Times and I will likely still contribute to the paper occasionally. Yet I have been feeling a lot like someone who has been laid off. For starters, I have tried to build a narrative based on the little information that was shared with me by my editors, who have told me they were nearly as surprised as I was about this decision. As in a layoff, the decision was made in response to the economic realities of the media industry, which is a polite way of saying that newspapers are in difficult financial shape.”
