A breach in the once-sacred firewall between business and editorial? Better. The right to publish a near-universally loathed blog post outing a private figure's sex life? Not noble enough. Tip 1: Make sure you have a noble reason to quit. Here's our guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Melodramatic Public Resignation. Are you thinking of flexing your principle muscles and quitting in style? Much like the Dramatic Message Board Exit of the early 2000s, there's a subtle art to the journalism resignation. As Read himself wrote on that occasion, "Never give a journalist an opportunity to Take A Stand." This drama arrives just seven months after a herd of New Republic editors publicly quit over a regime change. Gawker editor Max Read and Gawker Media executive editor Tommy Craggs have both resigned in protest. Denton removed the post against the wishes of the editorial staff. The latest bloodbath: Gawker Media, where Nick Denton's flagship site has fallen into chaos following a reviled Gawker post outing a Condé Nast executive who tried to hire a male prostitute. As they say in Heathers, whether to rage-quit or not is one of the most important decisions an editor can make. The best reason to take a top media job at this point is so you can one day make a big show of quitting it. There's a new trend in media, and it's publicly resigning prestigious editing gigs on principle.
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