Splinter Shutting Down (Another one bites the dust)

DailyBeast ^ | 10.10.19 | Maxwell Tani

[yesthatjallen]

The website’s parent company praised the outlet but said it failed to bring in sufficient traffic.

Splinter is shutting down.

In an internal memo sent Tuesday to staff, Paul Maidment, the editorial director of Splinter’s parent company G/O Media, praised the site’s journalism, but said the publication struggled to gain large numbers of readers.

“Despite the hard work of everyone on that staff, which has produced much outstanding journalism and great scoops, establishing a steady and sustainable audience for a relatively young site proved challenging in a fiercely competitive sector,” Maidment said.

“Given that reality, the leadership team made the difficult decision to cease operation of Splinter and redistribute the headcount to the other sites to increase the impact the editorial department can have overall.”

Maidment claimed there would be “no reduction of G/O Media’s editorial workforce as a result of this decision,” and Splinter’s headcount would be “reallocated” across other sites at G/O, the network of former Gizmodo Media Group sites including Deadspin, Jezebel, Gizmodo, and Jalopnik, among others. “Our goal, wherever possible, will be to retain current Splinter staff members in open positions at other G/O Media sites.”

SNIP

[yesthatjallen]

Never heard of them but more evidence liberals can't gain traction or get clicks.

[KC_Conspirator]

Another left wing online zine. If they are associated with J!zzabel, then they must be awful.

#learntocode

[Theo]

Unless the liberal’s last name is Zuckerberg. ;-)