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In tonight’s edition, we examine the reasons for a wave of recent departures at Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, the latest on the New York Post “catch and kill” story we broke Tuesday and Air Mail’s L.A. expansion.

Plus the exclusive invite-only New York Times event to be held next month in Upstate New York that may give some clues on who is next in line to be editor of the paper. 

Mentioned tonight: A.G. Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan, Marc Lacey, Kathleen Kingsbury, David Leonhardt, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Maureen Dowd, Keith Poole, Josh Kosman, Lars Kahl, Dennis Berman, Graydon Carter and Gerry Cardinale.

Why Is Everyone Fleeing The Free Press?

(Exclusive.) A series of high profile departures at The Free Press is raising concern amongst staff about the future of the three year old media company.

In the last couple of months the Bari Weiss led publication has seen splashy hires such as former New York Post Sunday editor Margi Conklin, who had been managing editor and former New Republic editor and Washington Post deputy opinion editor Charles Lane, who was serving as deputy editor, departing their positions. 

It follows former VICE journalists Michael Moynihan and Alex Chitty who left in February to join Mark Halperin’s 2WAY. 

And there is the bizarre situation involving New York Times ‘The Daily’ podcast co-creator Andy Mills who had been with Weiss from the start of The Free Press. He was the driving force behind the publications hit pod ‘The Witch Trials of J.K Rowling’ but quietly left the publication after what we are told was a falling out with Weiss.

According to three people familiar with the situation one of the reasons for the departures is …

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