Slate's Jack Shafer Discusses Being Laid Off, Future Plans

Last night two big stories broke. One was that Steve Jobs was stepping down as CEO of Apple. The other, and the one much more important to those of us in the media world, was that Jack Shafer was laid off by Slate. It caught everyone by surprise because Shafer and his Press Box column are phenomenal, it seemed crazy that Slate would let someone like him go. But such is the life of journalists.

Because we’re big fans of Shafer, we thought we’d pass along the interview

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