Can it be that hard to find out? More importantly than the gossip, some perspective on this would be useful in light of Newsweek cutting rate base. Was the magazine just staying alive because it was something Ted Rogers wanted to have?

Fair point about perspective. I have contacted senior management at Maclean's and hope to get an interview with someone soon. As for finding out more about who was laid off, I decided to employ the strategy of posting a short item with as much info as I was able to gather, hoping that someone might come forward, either through the comments section or via e-mail, with more information.

Marco, you handled this correctly. The old model may have been to sit until all the details and facts are in. As we know, the old model no longer works. You need to get the story out first and get your hook into the readers, err, users. When you have more perspective, we'll be back. M. Clone is right that perspective is--eventually--necessary, of course.