Wall Street Journal Fashion Bureau: No Longer

fashionologie — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:26:17 PST

>> Even icons aren't safe anymore. In late December, Village Voice laid off 30-year veteran and fashion writer Lynn Yaeger - she's since been picked up to blog for New York magazine during Fashion Week - and now, the Wall Street Journal has dismissed 23-year veteran Teri Agins as part of a decision to close its fashion and retail bureau.

The number of staffers has been reduced from nine to five - currently retained are columnist Christina Binkley and editor Lisa Bannon; the seven other employees - including Teri Agins, Rachel Dodes, and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, who generally writes the newspaper's must-read Heard on the Runway blog - have all been let go effective at the end of March and asked to reapply for the three remaining positions in the bureau.

All WSJ.'s fault? »