Update: Timeout Beirut’s website now redirects to Timeout.com
As you can see from the tweets below, someone was asking why TimeOut Beirut is now called BeirutView on Twitter and then a previous employee replied and stated that the Magazine’s co-founder sent a mass note that she’s leaving TOB/On Time as of May 30. I checked the website at the time of the tweets and it was still running but few hours later, it was shut down and the facebook page was closed down as well.
The only reply I saw regarding that matter on Twitter was the one below but I heard people saying that they lost the license. I can’t really confirm any of the info mentioned, specially the negative comments that emerged and that I’ve heard before, so I guess we will have to wait for an official statement (if there will be any), but something must have gone wrong for the magazine to shut down like that.
Personally speaking, I rarely check TimeOut Beirut and I don’t recall the last time I’ve bought their magazine.
Najib, enjoy your Jordanian trip AND your excellent internet connection (in other words, you can’t be faulted for your internet connection as to the website being down). I updated my own article with further tweets and correspondence, but I still cannot make head or tail of the situation:
http://beirutntsc.blogspot.com/2014/05/is-time-out-beirut-dead-or-is-it-now.html
Time Out Beirut was a disaster and was far and away the worst place I’ve ever worked. Management were lazy, incompetent, rude, self-serving and pretty shady, basically. Impossible to work with, hence their staff were always leaving. She didn’t ‘step down’, she had the license taken away from her, after the entire company had already walked out.