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The Inside Story Of Matt Taibbi's Departure From First Look Media

Inside Matt Taibbi's Departure From First Look Media
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Deputy Media Editor, The Huffington Post

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NEW YORK - OCTOBER 28: Matt Taibbi attends the Huffington Post 2010 'Game Changers' event at Skylight Studio on October 28, 2010 in New York, City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Matt Taibbi, who joined First Look Media just seven months ago, left the company on Tuesday. His departure—which he describes as a refusal to accept a work reassignment, and the company describes as a resignation—was the culmination of months of contentious disputes with First Look founder Pierre Omidyar, chief operating officer Randy Ching, and president John Temple over the structure and management of Racket, the digital magazine Taibbi was hired to create. Those disputes were exacerbated by a recent complaint from a Racket employee about Taibbi’s behavior as a manager.

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