Entire New Orleans Times-Picayune staff axed after sale to The Advocate

The Newhouse family sold the 182-year-old daily The Times-Picayune and its website, nola.com, to a scrappy New Orleans competitor, and the entire staff is being laid off. That has stirred worries across the other papers in the family’s Advance Publications empire.
A total of 161 staff members are being laid off, according to a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) notice filed with the Louisiana Workforce Commission, which listed 65 reporter and editor jobs in the bloodbath.

Wow.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/03/entire-new-orleans-times-picayune-staff-axed-after-sale-to-competitor/
The Times Picayune was a train wreck.. They needed to clean house and keep the ones worth keeping...

It was basically a WaPo copy and paste newspaper now anyway, and is a shell of its former self...

It's just too bad those idiots wouldn't sell it to Benson when he made an offer...