Posted on 11/12/2023 12:40:45 PM PST by Salman
Jezebel, a feminist US news site, was shut down by its owners on Thursday, with 23 people laid off and no plans for the outlet to resume publication.
G/O Media, which owns Jezebel and other sites including Gizmodo and the Onion, announced the closure in a memo to staff, which was obtained by the Guardian.
“Unfortunately, our business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel’s,” Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive of G/O Media, wrote in the memo, which was sent to staff on Thursday morning.
“And when that became clear, we undertook an expansive search for a new, perhaps better home that might ensure Jezebel a path forward. It became a personal mission of Lea Goldman, who worked tirelessly on the project, talking with over two dozen potential buyers.
“It is a testament to Jezebel’s heritage and bona fides that so many players engaged us. Still, despite every effort, we could not find Jez a new home.”
In response to the shuttering, the Writers Guild of America-East, which represents G/O Media staffers, issued a statement condemning Spanfeller.
“Jezebel has been a pillar of fearless journalism and important cultural commentary since 2007 and made an indelible mark on the media landscape,” the statement read, before adding: “A well-run company would have moved away from an advertising model, but instead they are shuttering the brand entirely because of their strategic and commercial ineptitude. Jezebel was a good website.”
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Not just The Root.
Mother Jones,
Salon,
Polygon,
The Walrus,
Slate,
and a few others, too.
The rich old cat ladies are dying off and leaving their money to the little kitties. So they were running out of other peoples’ money?
Naming a company after the most evil woman in history wouldn’t be a good idea.
You could tell something was coming when “The Patriarchy” became a punchline instead of an arch-enemy.
Substitute the name “Axios” in less than 5 years...
Or just ran out of money?
Yes nobody care businesses fold fast.
Jezebel, We Hardly Knew Ye!
Too much dependence on OPM. (Other People’s Money)
“Unfortunately, our business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel’s,” Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive of G/O Media, wrote in the memo,
G/O Media is a premium digital publishing company with a portfolio of brands defined by journalism that is thought-leading, independent and rabidly passionate.
We attract fans who reflect that: influential word-of-mouthers who are the go-to’s within their social sets for opinion and for recommendation.
Our synced content ecosystem encompasses lifestyle, popular culture, current affairs and vertical passion points, allowing our partners to capture market share, both broad stroke and hyper targeted.
G/O Media sites fire brand loyalty, boast enviable engagement metrics and deliver an untapped—unduplicated—contemporary consumer versus the competition.
So basically, Jezebel is out of fashion?
Amazing. I won a cover-all game of buzzword bingo in one press release.
So I should put you down as a "I'll think about it" to a lifetime subscription to Hillary Clinton Monthly?
Not exactly a first choice brand name for most people. But spot on for a femo site.
Not a bad name for a web site. I might be willing to put up a few dollars to buy the intellectual property and build a right wing Christian site around it. $100 bucks for the name, site, service and trade marks. They get to keep all existing content.
Not a bad name for a web site. I might be willing to put up a few dollars to buy the intellectual property and build a right wing Christian site around it. $100 bucks for the name, site, service and trade marks. They get to keep all existing content.
And nobody notices.
Press release: “vertical passion points”
They have porn web sites as well?
;-)
I guess the feminiazi didn’t make enough money selling “free cat!” ads.
Yes, but Jehu was a chariot guy, fast and furious was his thing so trampled by his horses but also reun over by his chariot.
So, I’ll take a different, less optimistic view here. The site no longer serves a purpose because its extremist views can be found all over social media and the news now.
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