Help:How to understand this sentence?
It happened to a talented journalist who ran a popular feature on the book, then turned and defied his new, youner editor and got a pink slip for his effort.
I cannot exactly grasp the meaning of this sentence, especially "ran a popular feature on the book" and"got a pink slip".Could you help me?
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to run = to write about; to publish or print
pink slip = expression for firing a worker (ending someone's job)
A journalist wrote a story about a book. He did not follow the orders of his editor and the editor fired the journalist.
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