Mike Lupica’s future as the high-profile sports columnist of The Daily News was in doubt Wednesday when the tabloid laid off several sportswriters and its managing editor for sports.
The sports department was heavily hit on a day when people across the paper’s newsroom were fired. Mortimer B. Zuckerman, owner of The News, ended his efforts to sell the newspaper last month; it is said to be losing $20 million a year. The paper’s editor in chief, Colin Myler, resigned last week to return to London.
Lupica was reported by Politico to be on his way out after having been unable to renew his contract.