5:18 On Tuesday, Daily Hampshire Gazette Editor-In-Chief Brooke Hauser announced that she had lost her job. Hauser took the position at the 234 year-old publication – the longest running daily newspaper in Massachusetts – in the summer of 2018. In a statement, publisher Michael Moses of Newspapers of New England said Hauser will be replaced by Joan Livingston of the Greenfield Recorder. NNE continues to lay off employees and sell holdings. Hauser spoke with WAMC about her time at the Gazette as she cleaned out her office in Northampton Tuesday. HAUSER: It is the community. I mean, not the entire community, because not everybody reads it, not everybody writes for it and engages with it. But, you know, I was Arts and Culture editor before being the editor-in-chief here, and I come from a long history of journalism in all different fields- you know, magazine, books, newspapers. But you know, I live here, I live in this community, and when I open the Gazette, because I read it every morning, I see my city's mayor and my friends and my neighbors, and what's happening with my kids' school district, and, I mean, it is the community itself reflected back to you. And one thing I've been very proud of, in addition to our reporting and the work of our writers and photographers here, is the work of our columnists on the opinion page and the features sections, people who- We have such talented people who live in the Pioneer Valley, and that they take the time and effort to write for the Gazette, to share their opinions, whether it's about override or what's happening in the schools, or to reflect on the loss of RBG and what that means for feminists, we just have, we have so many great writers. And I've been personally very invested in bringing them into the paper, voices that reflect a wide diversity of our community. More people of color, more women, more people of different gender and sexual identities, young people, even more conservative columnists. I believe in a free press and an exchange of ideas, and it's been wonderful that way.