February 25, 2011

New York Times
Wayne Barrett‘s working on pieces for The Nation and Tina Brown. He says of the man who laid him off in December: “Tony Ortega is the hardest working editor and the most skillful editor of copy that I’ve ever had. But I’ve never liked him very much.” The Voice editor tells Richard Perez-Pena that “battling with Wayne Barrett has been one of the best experiences of my career.”

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