What Is Wednesday's Weekly Dig Going to Look Like?

We had heard word from a kind tipper that some of the Weekly Dig staff gave notice as soon as former Editor Michael Brodeur found out that he was fired. The Boston Magazine blog just confirmed that managing editor Shaula Clark and staff writer Julia Reischel are indeed gone.

The Boston Magazine blog also had an exclusive interview with Dig publisher Jeff Lawrence. That makes sense, as Joe Keohane used to edit the Dig and is now working for the blog and the magazine. However, Keohane did not do the interview - that job went to Paul Flannery.

Lawrence said of Brodeur, "Michael is a phenomenal writer. He’s not an editor. He might agree, he might disagree." Definitely check out the rest of the interview--this isn't the first time the Weekly Dig has attempted an extreme staff makeover.

For this week, Lawrence is going to edit the paper himself, making the upcoming edition the most anticipated Weekly Dig in a long, long time. A commenter calling itself "Media Farm" and linking to the Dig's Media Farm blog left the lines: "Ron Paul for editor! Media Farm for president!"

Jeff, if you are reading this and are pondering the future of the Dig, whatever you do, keep Media Farm. Even if they've gotten pissy with little old us in the past, we forgive because that column is like crack. And you might want to update that masthead.

Image of the rear-end ad with which the new Dig website debuted.