Endangered

Here: Another endangered species in print journalism took a hit this week as Los Angeles magazine fired the writers Steve Oney, Jesse Katz and David Gardetta.



Here's the job description, now gone at yet another periodical: "longform narrative magazine writer, with staff jobs—and benefits." It's a good gig. You come up with a big idea for a story, report it out for a couple of months, write 10,000 words or so. Then you win valuable prizes and appear in anthology books. You feel like you are carrying on the tradition of Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Lillian Ross and Hunter S. Thompson. You are part of a dwindling circle of eminences that includes William Langewiesche of the Atlantic Monthly (now…