The New Republic Sold

NEW REPUBLIC SOLD! pic.twitter.com/VXhp7dChkD

— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) February 26, 2016

The New Republic For Sale--Again

Chris Hughes explains why he's selling it.

A Vox article from 2014 when the magazine was first up for sale, with a 2016 update.

Snark aside: TNR has some wonderful writers who I hope will be fine despite the idiocy of Chris Hughes and Guy Vidra.

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 11, 2016

Imagine if Chris Hughes had spent the last few yrs handing out $20M in cash to people on the street & left TNR alone https://t.co/1jQzJoC9kN

— Elissa Goldstein (@Book_Moth) January 11, 2016

TNR was bound to fail with its strident focus on identity. How many Vox like media outlets can a country support?

— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) January 11, 2016

oh god we're going to get a whole new round of old white men giving us hot TNR takes, aren't we?

— Kevin Robillard (@PoliticoKevin) January 11, 2016

Defecting from The New Republic

Slate, "The Slatest: Your News Companion," "Mass Resignations at TNR Follow Departures of Foer, Wieseltier" by Ben Mathis-Lilley.

Gawker: "White Men Upset Wrong White Man Placed in Charge...", by Leah Finnegan.

National Catholic Reporter, "Distinctly Catholic" blog, "RIP: The New Republic", by Michael Sean Winters (5 Dec. 2014)

What will John MacArthur make of this?

----
12 December 2014 update: A USA Today article on the future of newsweeklies.

----
14 December update: I just found