Laid Off New Yorker Writer Tweets About Losing His Job

@DanielsBaum‘s contract at the New Yorker was terminated in 2007. Now, almost two years later, he’s Tweeting about the experience.

@DanielsBaum, or Dan Baum, was a staff writer for the New Yorker from 2003 until 2007 (the final year he wrote a daily column about New Orleans, not for the print edition).

Here’s his Twitter feed thus far (too many to take a screengrab, so just read backwards):

# Loved it. More later.
# It gets away with it, because writing for the New Yorker is the ne plus ultra of journalism gigs.

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