Posted on 11/14/2023 8:41:58 AM PST by Morgana
NEW YORK -- Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website that found an impassioned and devoted following at the height of the blogosphere era but ended up struggling with its business model, is shutting down after 16 years, its parent company announced Thursday.
It is the latest gender-focused media site to fold as the media industry struggles with plummeting digital advertising that has also cut into the profitability of major tech companies from Google to Facebook. Bitch Media, which had a print magazine, website and podcast, closed last year after 25 years, citing sustainability. The Washington Post folded The Lily, its freestanding publication on gender an identity issues, into its main website last year.
G/O Media said 23 staffers would be laid off, including Jezebel's team, as part of a restructuring to cope with economic headwinds and a difficult digital advertising environment. The New York-based company also announced the departure of G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown.
Launched in 2007 by Gawker Media, Jezebel established itself as an influential voice in feminist commentary years before the explosion of the #Metoo movement pushed issues of gender and power to the forefront of mainstream media coverage. The website combined searing commentary on gender politics with edgy pop culture coverage to build a audience craving an alternative to the frothy fashion magazines that dominated the landscape of media targeted at women.
The website appealed to readers because it combined style with serious news and commentary, said Kate Cox, program director for Poynter’s Leadership Academy for Women in Media. It covered political issues like abortion but gained the most buzz with its takedowns of celebrity culture and the fashion industries, helping make subjects like “body shaming” and “rape culture” part of the national discourse.
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Without knowing anything about it, good riddance.
That lefty rag is finally crashing and burning, like the Biblical figure Queen 👸🏻 Jezebel. Now if only Democratic Underground and Stormfront could follow suit.
Named after the woman in the Bible who had God’s prophets murdered.
It’s always nice to see a liberal company or media outlet go down in flames.
That is right. It’s only fitting that a pro baby killing media outlet is named after such a figure.
Apparently not impassioned and devoted enough. Or numerous. I wasn't aware of its existence before I heard of its passing.
Translation - bitch bitch bitch.
Bitch Media? Really?!
Actually, i find it encouraging that niche outlets like these cannot find a following even in the vastness of the worldwide web.
Watch for the rise in “How to enjoy life alone with 30 Cats”.
It’s the new thing to follow the same demographic:
AWFLs and other delusional, lied-to whimen that have finally realized they hit the wall 10 years ago.
MGTOW approved-
Um..... what is rape culture?
Deliberately so. See also the "Lilith Fair", and "Bitch Media".
Sometimes you have to read between the lines, but they're remarkably honest about who they are.
Jezebel is going away, but a left-feminist presence on the internet isn't.
Rape culture: a culture in which wymyn are encouraged to divorce their husbands and rape their husbands’ bank accounts.
Huh. Somehow I was completely ignorant of this. Oh well.
I used to read it from time-to-time 5+ years ago. It was interesting in a very liberal way. I would have to say that our current woke world is something they couldn’t even have imagined. More wishes fulfilled in a 100-year dream in 5 years.
IMHO, All of these activist/leftist news sites are owned by Democrat/left cronies, and supported by deep-state money purely for propaganda purposes. When they get bad enough, they are declared bankrupt and some other site briefly rises as the new vanguard of Leftist alternative media
DailyKos, HuffPo, Vice, Jezebel, Gawker, the list seems endless
After defenestration, Feed Jezebel to the dogs 🐩 🐕
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