Longtime LA Times sportswriter tweets her own layoff

Diane Pucin has been covering sports media and tennis, as well as other sports beats, at the Los Angeles Times for a long time. She tweeted an hour ago that she got tapped on the shoulder.

Won't be posting any more LAT links. Got caught in newspaper dropping people today. Anybody know of anything, let me know.

— Diane Pucin (@mepucin) January 10, 2014

On Facebook, a friend of hers emails, she elaborated a bit: "Anyone that needs a writer who has produced over 300 stories some years, been a columnist at two papers, done 7 Olympics, 10 Wimbledons, countless college football and basketball games and takeouts, I'm available. Once I stop crying of course." She could have added 14,420 tweets as well.

The public face of her Facebook page says simply: "Lost job today. Am looking for newspaper or public relations work, will move anywhere."