A downturn in advertising led to the "excruciating" decision, its owner said.

Feminist media site Jezebel is suspending publication, as its owner reckons with a downturn in online advertising.

G/O Media chief Jim Spanfeller announced the move in a memo to staff, calling it an “excruciating” decision.

  • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    888·
    1 year ago

    You might not care much about Jezebel, but their parent company, G/O Media, also owns Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Deadspin, The Root, The A.V. Club, The Takeout, The Onion, The Inventory, and Quartz.

    So if you like any of those (Lemmy fucking loves The Onion, right?) then this news should concern you a bit.

    Also, RIP Jezebel. Sometimes they were edgy and weird for no reason but they also did some solid reporting over the years.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      As much as I like the onion, I have no clue what their business model is. Making funny headlines that nobody ever clicks on doesn’t make money.

      The others never seemed that useful.

    • shrodes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Last I heard I think they had lost or fired 7 Editor in Chiefs across their holdings in the past 8 months or so. From what I’ve heard they are run pretty terribly for the people that work there and G/O just generally suck.

      The former Kotaku EIC in particular did not have nice things to say about them on The Games Press podcast

    • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      I always saw Jezebel as sort of celebrity tabloid, guess I wasn’t there in the golden days or just didn’t give it a chance.

    • realharo@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      It’s a bit funny because people on Lemmy seem to viscerally hate all online advertising and everything connected to it, yet here many of them are, lamenting the end of a company caused by not enough ad revenue.

        • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          158·
          1 year ago

          I mean, they’re allowed to comment. You don’t have to only have a positive opinion to be allowed to make a comment

          • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1610·
            1 year ago

            I didn’t say they’re not allowed to comment. It was a shitty and useless comment, and I’m allowed to point that out, as well as pointing out the irony of taking the time to comment that you don’t care. Thanks bud.

              • derphurr@lemmy.worldEnglish
                64·
                1 year ago

                It’s because these former mods of /r/ whatever have to gatekeep stuff instead of the age old forum behavior of zero moderation and move along and don’t feed trolls. They feel entitled to meaninglessly comment about how someone’s comment was meaningless.

          • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            1 year ago

            I didn’t find anything wrong with your opinion, and I never said you weren’t entitled to anything. I’m just pointing out the dumb irony of taking the time to comment on something that you supposedly DON’T care about, in order to tell the world how LITTLE you care. If you really didn’t care, you would have kept scrolling.