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Public media will resurrect Gothamist, LAist and DCist

sudshr47 February 23, 2018

Local news sites Gothamist, LAist and DCist are coming back from the dead. Their assets (including story archives) have been acquired by three public radio companies — WNYC in New York, KPCC in Southern California and WAMU in Washington, D.C.
According to the acquisition announcement, the deal comes after a competitive sale process, and it was funded by “generous philanthropic… Read More

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After Gothamist archives disappear, heroic coders build tool to recover articles

sudshr47 November 3, 2017

When every one of the articles that had ever been published by Gothamist, DNAinfo, and their many sister sites disappeared on Friday night, many people expected the worst.

Thousands of articles from writers were suddenly gone. Those journalists, laid off as part of the sudden closing of the publications, also didn’t have the clips integral to getting a new job.

That sent two coders into action. Hours later, they had built a web-based tool that allowed any journalist to search for their byline and grab their articles based on caches from Google’s AMP web pages.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 @xn9q8h and i wrote a tool that retrieves Gothamist articles from AMP caches! 🚨🚨🚨🚨 https://t.co/tPMBGMVFSk pic.twitter.com/blzWcSLbvf

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Local news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist shut down

sudshr47 November 2, 2017

DNAinfo and Gothamist have both shut down, a week after reporters and editors at the local news sites unionized. Their archives seem to have disappeared — if you visit either front page, or any article, you’re redirected to a letter from CEO Joe Ricketts (pictured above), who trots out some growth numbers before saying: But DNAinfo is, at the end of the day, a business, and… Read More

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Ridiculously rich man shuts down DNAinfo and Gothamist after employees unionize

sudshr47 November 2, 2017

Billionaire Joe Ricketts has thrown a temper tantrum so big he shut his own company down.

Ricketts—the founder of Ameritrade, whose children own the Chicago Cubs, and whose wealth is estimated at around $2.1 billion—closed down local New York City news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist on Thursday, as well as websites in a variety of other cities including Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.

After a months-long battle, employees at the recently-merged news outlets voted to become members of Writers Guild of America East about a week ago.

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