Departing Newsweek.com Editor: 'Very Pleasant' Buyout Process

This morning, we broke the news that Newsweek.com editor Deidre Depke, a 12-year vet of the magazine, was one of the 130-plus staffers taking a buyout. We caught up with her by phone to ask about her departure and the mood at the gutted mag.

“I didn’t [expect to leave],” she told us. “The idea came to me at the last minute. It was a natural point of transition because we had relaunched the Web site in October and traffic’s been excellent.

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