Bob Greenberger, an editor with Weekly World News, reports on his blog that he and the rest of the staff were called into a meeting about noon on Friday where they were “told the Board of Directors has chosen to close Weekly World News. The reasons given make no sense. We’re stunned and shell-shocked. We’re to stay on through August 3, finishing the reprint issues and then we’re done. A glorious, funny, odd publication, born in 1979, will go out with a whimper and all I can think is that something’s going on that they’re not telling us because it just doesn’t make sense.”
This is a follow-on to Weekly World News Shutting Down, which was posted yesterday.
[The story continues with this letter from a former WWN staffer posted on 24 July.]
Glad to see someone is finally recognizing the quality work that http://www.weeklyworldnews.com is putting out. The jetpacks being purchased by california was a great story. See the coverage from CNN at the link below:
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/23295/wwn-takes-off-on-cnn/