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Observer Lays Off 4

Dana Schwartz, Vinnie Mancuso and Cole Garner Hill are among those let go

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By Corinne Grinapol

Less than a week after Ken Kurson resigned as editor in chief of the Observer, the publication has laid off four staffers. They were notified today, individually, by Tom D’Agostino, Observer Media’s controller and vice president of operations, reports WWD’s Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke.

Those let go from an already small staff include Dana Schwartz, who is best known as the writer of an open letter to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, who was then owner of the paper (it’s now owned by his family), after Trump tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton that had anti-Semitic overtones.

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