Jared Paul Stern's little mess has gotten three other gossip scribes fired. In a bid to clean up Page Six's image, the column is firing all of its freelancers. The paper had to do something, and it surely wasn't going to fire Richard Johnson.
The New York Post's Page Six is terminating all freelance employees in a housecleaning triggered by the payola scandal surrounding the embattled gossip column.Post spokesman Howard Rubenstein declined comment on the move except to say, "The editors will not discuss their internal management decisions."
Hints of a cleanup came last week when Post Editor in Chief Col Allan said in a published report: "We are going to tighten ship."
Freelance reporters Fernando Gil, Lisa Marsh, Christopher Tennant and Jared Paul Stern are the byline staffers who are being sacked.
All occupied the "fourth chair" in the line of Page Six desks manned by full-timers Richard Johnson, editor and chief writer, along with Chris Wilson and Paula Froelich.
Post cans four gossip scribes [Daily Dish]
