In your foreboding Thursday media column: Rumors of veterans departing their jobs far and wide, Anthony Kennedy’s story weakens, newspapers and magazines lose huge money, and Jon Fine’s media gig disappears.
We have two separate (unconfirmed) staff change rumors today, from tipsters. First, at SI:
At the ever-shrinking Sports Illustrated, the magazine’s #2, exec ed. Mike Bevans, has privately announced that he’ll be among the staffers taking a buyout. This marks the second Time Inc. purge in a row that M.E. Terry [McDonnell]. has lost his aide de camp: last year it was David Bauers.
Second, we hear that the New York Post has replaced veteran police reporter Phil Messing with relative rookie Kirsten Fleming. Indeed, Messing’s byline does not show up in a search since last month. Out tipster says, “The fear, of course, is that the writing is on the wall for Phil who is one of the more reliable and experienced police reporters in the city. He’s old school. But the Post is rumored to be wanting to get rid of 10 to 15 reporters so everyone over there is worrying that their heads are on the chopping block.” If you know more, email us. 
Oh Anthony Kennedy went on and on about how his office’s demand to pre-approve his quotes in a school paper was misunderstood, but now the WSJ says he did the same thing once at GWU. Whatever. Just don’t outlaw abortion. 
There used to be a dozen analysts covering newspaper companies for Wall Street. How many are there now? Not so many! Now it’s just Rick Edmonds, a dude who works for Poynter, trying to figure out how bad the newspaper apocalypse is. “My conservative estimate is that there is $1.6 billion newspapers used to spend annually on reporting and editing that they don’t anymore.” Journalism! Related: An incredible graph about magazines, and the money they are no longer making. 
BusinessWeek media reporter Jon Fine (a good reporter!), currently on a months-long round-the-world vacation with his wealthy wife Laurel Touby, announces on Twitter that new BW owners Bloomberg have laid him off. One thing he can take solace in: His months-long, round-the-world vacation.
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