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New America ends Barry Lynn's employment

On 30 August 2017 New America ended Barry Lynn's employment; the Open Markets team left with him.

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New America ended Barry Lynn's employment, saying it was over his repeated refusal to adhere to its standards of openness and institutional collegiality Primary record 1 2 3
Barry C. Lynn director of the Open Markets program, whose employment ended Primary record 1
Anne-Marie Slaughter CEO of New America; denied that Google's lobbying caused the decision Primary record 1

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New America's Response to the New York Times, New America, 30 Aug 2017. Primary record
Today, we made the difficult decision to terminate Barry Lynn.
For the past two months, we have been working with Barry Lynn to spin out Open Markets as an independent program
Today’s New York Times story implies that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets program because of this press release. I want to be clear: this implication is absolutely false.
As I reiterated to him in June, his repeated refusal to adhere to New America’s standards of openness and institutional collegiality meant that we could no longer work together as part of the same institution.
In the Interest of Transparency, New America Releases Email Correspondence with Barry Lynn, New America, 30 Aug 2017. Primary record
The first email quoted in the New York Times is from June 2016, a full year ago.
How I Got Fired From a D.C. Think Tank for Fighting Against the Power of Google, The Intercept, 31 Aug 2017. Scholarship & press
Within 72 hours, New America’s president, Anne-Marie Slaughter, told Lynn that he — and all of us on the Open Markets team — had to leave.

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