Following yesterday’s news that editor Franklin Foer and longtime literary editor Leon Wieseltier after The New Republic’s owner and CEO announced that they’d be cutting their print output in half, numerous editors have reportedly resigned.

New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza tweeted earlier this morning that these senior and contributing editors have already resigned, and more rumors are flowing about a mass exodus from the 100-year-old magazine.

Yesterday, Foer announced his resignation CEO Guy Vidra sent a staff to memo announcing former Atlantic Wire and Gawker editor Gabriel Snyder would be the new editor of TNR. In his memo, he also announced that the magazine would cut its print output in half to just 10 issues a year, as the reimagine TNR as a “vertically integrated digital media company.” That includes opening up a new office in New York City.

Senior editor Julia Ioffe posted the following statement on Facebook in response to the news, which should give you a better idea of what’s going on there:

Today, I did something I thought I’d never do and quit The New Republic. It has been, hands down, the happiest, most satisfying, most intellectually stimulating place I’ve ever worked and my colleagues were, hands down, the most competent, talented, and decent people in the business.

The narrative you’re going to see Chris and Guy put out there is that I and the rest of my colleagues who quit today were dinosaurs, who think that the Internet is scary and that Buzzfeed is a slur. Don’t believe them. The staff at TNR has always been faithful to the magazine’s founding mission to experiment, and nowhere have I been so encouraged to do so. There was no opposition in the editorial ranks to expanding TNR’s web presence, to innovating digitally. Many were even board for going monthly. We’re not afraid of change. We have always embraced it.

As for the health of long-form journalism, well, the pieces that often did the best online were the deeply reported, carefully edited and fact-checked, and beautifully written. Those were the pieces that got the most clicks.

Also, TNR’s digital media editor Hillary Kelly resigned today. From her honeymoon. In Africa. Consider that.

But enough polemics about the cowardly, hostile way Frank and Leon and the rest of us were treated. We’ve done some incredible work in the last 2.5 years and I’m proud of every day I ever worked there. I loved The New Republic, and, more than that, I love my colleagues. They are exceptional, earth-movingly good people. I will miss working with them every day.

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