Feminist publication Jezebel is shutting down after 16 years, its father or mother firm G/O Media introduced in a memo to staff Thursday. The media group stated it's also shedding 23 staff, together with the workers of Jezebel, throughout its digital platforms."As of this week we're making the very, very tough determination to droop publication …
Feminist publication Jezebel is shutting down after 16 years, its father or mother firm G/O Media introduced in a memo to staff Thursday. The media group stated it’s also shedding 23 staff, together with the workers of Jezebel, throughout its digital platforms.
“As of this week we’re making the very, very tough determination to droop publication of Jezebel,” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller stated within the memo obtained by CBS Information. “Sadly, our enterprise mannequin and the audiences we serve throughout our community didn’t align with Jezebel’s.”
Spanfeller stated the choice to close down Jezebel got here after G/O couldn’t discover a purchaser for the web site. He stated that, regardless of curiosity from over 24 potential patrons, “we couldn’t discover Jez a brand new residence.”
“I have not given up on Jezebel. Media is nothing if not resilient. So are its practitioners. I’ll preserve you apprised if circumstances change,” Spanfeller wrote.
The publication, launched in 2007 by Gawker Media, was identified for reporting and commentary on hot-button cultural points affecting girls, masking matters starting from politics, leisure, magnificence and style, girls’s well being, girls within the public eye and extra. The location and all different former Gawker Media publications — together with Gizmodo, Deadspin, The Root and A/V Membership — apart from Gawker, have been acquired by Univision in 2016 following Gawker Media declaring chapter within the wake of the Hulk Hogan intercourse tape lawsuit.
G/O Media was then fashioned in 2019 after Univision bought the previous Gawker Media websites to Nice Hill Companions.
Within the memo asserting the shuttering of Jezebel, G/O Media additionally launched new plans for restructuring its editorial technique for its remaining publications. Spanfeller stated, regardless of the cuts, he hopes the modifications to the editorial course of within the firm’s numerous newsrooms will lead to development within the months forward.
Along with outlining plans for restructuring, the memo introduced the departure of the corporate’s editorial director, Merrill Brown.
Jezebel is the most recent publication targeted on feminist and gender identity-related matters to close down. Final 12 months, Bitch Journal shuttered and the Washington Publish’s The Lily was discontinued and its staffers have been reassigned to different departments throughout the paper’s newsroom.
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