Page Six cleans house
Jared Paul Stern
The scandal that Jared Paul Stern created has winded up costing more than his job, it has also taken the jobs of it’s freelancers. Jared had been alleged of trying to extort $220,000 from supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle, for protection from Page Six.
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.
