Another Dig departure

Published Apr 25 2007, 05:10 PM by Adam Reilly

Sizzlin'-hot alternative-weekly news: Weekly Dig managing editor Lissa Harris is leaving the paper to attend MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing. We hear she's getting a full ride and a stipend, which is certainly the way to do that sort of thing. (In terms of largesse, it's also very un-Dig-esque).

If you follow this stuff, you know that Harris is the second biggish name to depart the Dig this year. Longtime editor Joe Keohane left the paper in January and is now a staff writer at Boston Magazine, the Dig's corporate sibling.

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16 Comments

Harris said:

Reilly, you ever gonna call me? It's called reporting.

April 25, 2007 9:15 PM
paul said:

wait, does that make the rest of us smallish names? also, rumor has it that harris's stipend consists solely of old johnny d's trade. so it's not as impressive as it sounds.

April 25, 2007 9:17 PM
M. Brodeur said:

largesse, un-Dig-like? I'll have you know that some of us are visibly overweight. the voice had that scoop weeks ago. unrelated: how can we go about getting even more of our staff in the stuff@night party pics? our mothers are freaking proud.

April 25, 2007 9:23 PM
paul said:

it's true. brodeur's wicked fat. read - and see! - all about it here: http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0713,harvilla,76181,22.html

April 25, 2007 9:45 PM
M. Brodeur said:

i don't know about "wicked fat"-- no one's laundering any linens on my abs, sure, but even if I were on that new planet they just found, i'd still only be about 270.

April 25, 2007 9:52 PM
Harris said:

Fuck the Village Voice, I'm the fat one around here. http://www.weeklydig.com/blog/articles/grace_ross_rocks_the_gaisley/

April 25, 2007 9:54 PM
J. Scherer said:

I dunno, brodeur's gut has, like, a mind of its own...this one time, it ate half my desk when I wasn't looking. I'm just sayin.

April 25, 2007 9:55 PM
paul said:

this one time, brodeur's gut threw dog shit at me from the window of an allston apartment. how fucked is that???

April 25, 2007 9:57 PM
Alex Beam said:

Wow, that's a big gut! Hey, do you think my stuff might be in there somewhere? http://www.weeklydig.com/blog/articles/gay_bash_dear_alex_beam_come_get_your_stuff_back_if_youre_man_enough

April 25, 2007 9:59 PM
Adam said:

Lissa, when you've got a scoop this hot, you don't fuck around with courtesy calls.

April 25, 2007 10:10 PM
Shaula said:

Speaking of scoops ... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/cavedwellers/HotScoop.jpg

April 25, 2007 10:49 PM
Harris said:

Verily, that is a hot scoop.

April 25, 2007 11:05 PM
eh said:

Me douth think thy protest too much

April 27, 2007 7:26 PM
paul said:

yeah, sorry, eh. forgot fun isn't allowed over here.

April 27, 2007 11:13 PM
Dave Stegler said:

McMorrow, you're such a tool.

April 28, 2007 4:51 PM
loose_hippie_bitches said:

Brodeur's next. The worst columnist in Boston has got to go. Plus it's pretty damn funny that Harris is on her way to some la-di-da elite bullshit at MIT. Her and the Dig's feeble attempts at gonzo media criticism was such an obvious pose. Gosh Lissa, maybe you can write for the New York Times someday! Won't mom be proud?

August 24, 2007 7:20 PM