January was a brutal month for journalists, globally from death and locally from layoffs. The latter hit home this week when TechCrunch announced the layoffs of several former colleagues I worked with as managing editor. The site also announced the shutdown of its subscription service TechCrunch+, which I as founding editor and others launched as Extra Crunch back around Valentine’s Day 2019 with a massive feature on creator subscription platform Patreon (an intentional irony!) Journalists and m...