Andy Klein got laid off at New Times about 8 years ago.
A little while later, New Times folded LA operations in an anti-competitve deal with Village Voice Media, which owned LA Weekly.
Andy got the gig at City Beat, which tried to expand into what had been the New Times slot.
New Times bought Village Voice Media and laid off a ton of film writers in NY and last week, knocked off Ella Taylor.
City Beat followed in its predecessor and primary competition by dumping Andy.
I once hired Andy and I tried to hire Ella, both for roughcut.com, which was closed in the Time Warner-AOL merger because AOL didn't wish to compete with internal brands. Andy lost a paying gig that day... in Sundance for us... 7 years ago.
Hard times are not new. But they are harder when it feels like family going down.
400 miles to Park City...
Read the complete post at http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2009/01/the_new_times_c.html