You going to tell us?
It’s terribly inconsiderate and lazy to tell people to go look up something you know.
If you know it, have the courtesy and human decency to post it for others. It doesn’t take that long.
I put that in the same category as people who simply post a Bible reference post without posting the verse. NOBODY has the entire Bible memorized by reference, and if you looked up the Scripture reference to mention it, take the few extra seconds and copy and paste the verse.
Jezebel is a US-based website featuring news and cultural commentary geared towards women. It was launched in 2007 by Gawker Media under the editorship of Anna Holmes as a feminist counterpoint to traditional women’s magazines.
After the breakup of Gawker Media, the site was purchased by Univision Communications and later acquired by G/O Media. The site stopped publishing on November 9, 2023, when parent company G/O Media laid off its staff.
Jezebel was one of six websites that was purchased by Univision Communications in their acquisition of Gawker Media in August 2016. Univision sold the site in 2019 to a private-equity firm, which combined various former Gawker publications under the name of G/O Media.
G/O Media Inc. is an American media holding company that owns and operates the digital media outlet The Root.
It was formed in 2019 after the private equity firm Great Hill Partners purchased two digital portfolios from Univision: Gizmodo Media Group (Gizmodo, Jezebel, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Splinter, The Root, Kotaku, and Jalopnik) and the Onion portfolio (The Onion, ClickHole, The A.V. Club, and The Takeout). Since 2023, the company has sold off many of its outlets, including The Onion and Gizmodo, which were the source of “the G and O of its name”.
By July 2025, it had one remaining outlet and was in the process of sunsetting its operations.
“Trailblazing feminist blog Jezebel’s owner says the site has to shut down from a lack of buyers. The writers claim ‘strategic and commercial ineptitude’”
By Alexandra Olson
By The Associated Press
November 9, 2023
https://fortune.com/2023/11/09/jezebel-shut-down-sold-ineptitude/
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.
In a memo to the company, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller said he made the “very, very difficult decision to suspend publication of Jezebel” after an unsuccessful search for a buyer for the website. Spanfeller praised Jezebel’s editorial team but said the company’s “business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel’s.”
Jezebel was launched in 2007 by Gawker Media with Anna Holmes as its first editor-in-chief. It 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. In 2019, Jezebel became part of the G/O Media portfolio, which also includes Gizmodo, Quartz, the Onion and the Root.
On November 29, 2023, it was announced that Jezebel and Splinter were acquired by Paste in an all-cash deal; this deal includes both the archive of content and the Jezebel brand. Josh Jackson, a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Paste, commented that they had not considered purchasing it until after learning of Jezebel’s closure. The New York Times reported that Jezebel was sold without employees so Jackson “was aiming to first find an editor in chief for Jezebel and then hire writers”. Adweek stated “Paste plans to rehire as many former staff as it can afford to” and that the outlet “will resume publishing within the next few days”.
We can thank Hulk Hogan for his lawsuit against Gawker that put them into bankruptcy. (Peter Thiel fund Hogan’s lawsuit as he was pissed at Gawker for outing him as being gay.)