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Monday, April 14, 2014

Emmis' Texas Monthly Sues New York Times

4-12-14

Bloomberg has the details of the lawsuit which says Texas Monthly sued the paper for $1 million over the hiring of its top editor to join the newspaper?s magazine division before his contract expired. According to Bloomberg, Ian Arnold, Emmis?s general counsel, told Times managing editor Dean Baquet that ?Texas Monthly expected to be compensated? for the cost of finding a replacement editor if Jake Silverstein was hired away before his contract expired in February 2015. ?Despite Baquet?s assurances,? the Times didn?t notify Texas Monthly and the magazine learned of the hiring from Silverstein just before the newspaper announced it on March 28, according to the lawsuit.

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