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No surprise that the Time Inc. cuts struck a chord:

Noname1234 offered support: ...I would like to say to those folks: Hang in there! Many of us here have lost jobs at various points and have bounced back. You can definitely do it too.

While Newyorker shared some "Reasoning" behind the cuts: Part of the reasons for the large amount of cuts is that Time Inc. wants to move towards single reporter/writer reporter (in other words, one byline per article) plus self copy-editing. This is fine and dandy for lifestyle magazines, but for a hard news mag like Time, wouldn't a move like this potentially hurt the quality of reporting? So many of their stories require multiple reporters around the world....

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