Former NOLA.com / Times-Picayune music reporters Keith Spera and Alison Fensterstock will bring their services to The New Orleans Advocate. Spera, who resigned from his position at the NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune last week, will cover the region’s music scene, while Fensterstock will work alongside him as a contributing music writer. Spera will also continue writing his humor column, which “documents his misadventures as a married father of three young children,” with his new employer.

In addition to Spera and Fensterstock, The New Orleans Advocate has brought on two more former employees of The Times-Picayune, graphics editor Dan Swenson and community news editor Karen Taylor Gist. All four of them were laid off or had their roles altered when The Times-Picayune announced a reshuffle last month.

The latest shake up at the Times Picayune comes three years after the paper significantly reduced its print output and shifted its focus to online at the behest of its owner, Advance Publications. A few rounds of layoffs followed in the ensuing years, as well an announcement that NOLA Media Group–the company that overess NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune–would be merging with Alabama Media Group.

The New Orleans Advocate has taken a different approach for the past few years. The publication, a spin-off of Baton Rouge-based newspaper The Advocate, was launched right after the Times-Picayune announced its print reduction in 2012. The company was purchased by John and Dathel Georges in 2013, and has aggressively expanded its operation in the Greater New Orleans Area since then.