We apologize for taking so long to post this, but we had to weed through all of Baird Jones' celeb art invites. Today, one of our beloved tipsters left us some insider mag gossip (and we do expect all of you to follow suit):

Last week Billboard Magazine laid off several employees, most of them staff veterans. Shown the door:

Bill Holland (Washington D.C. bureau chief)
Deborah Evans Price (Country/Christian music editor in Nashville)
Margo Whitmire (staff writer in L.A.)

We hope to hear from Billboard's fact-checkers, because honestly, we barely have time to sort through our e-mails, let alone confirm gossip.