New York Times Employment Columnist Now Unemployed

For the last year and a half, New York Times columnist Marci Alboher wrote about other people’s jobs. Yesterday, she wrote about her own–the one she no longer has at the paper. Since she was a contractor, this doesn’t count as a violation of Executive Editor Bill Keller’s “no more layoffs, we hope” kind-of pledge. But the Times is going to have a hard time keeping its existing payroll intact.