Did the Dallas Observer fire Simone Carter?

 And, if so, was it over her coverage of the PRO Gainesville protests?

Or, did she just quit?

In either case, I found it weird that, even before that, she was doing reporting on exurban areas not even part of the Metromess, and also found it weird that she wasn't being more reined in to Metromess reporting, as I told the Observer when applying for an ME opening a year or more ago. (It was Meredith Lawrence, not her, though, that wrote, even more bizarrely, about a wind farm in my neck of the woods.)

In either case, it's six weeks and counting since she had a byline there. She has been pumping out volumes of bloggy stuff for Newsweek since then. (IMO, listing ALL of them on your Muck Rack profile is a good way to undercut your bona fides.) There, she does list herself as "former" of the Observer. The fact that she has nothing but Newsweek blog posts listed on her profile says it was either a firing, or a downsizing for Observer fiscal reasons, but not her quitting.

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Update, Feb. 26, 2023: She's back at the Observer as of late January.