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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSplinter is shutting down.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/splinter-news-shutting-downIn an internal memo sent Tuesday to staff, Paul Maidment, the editorial director of Splinters parent company G/O Media, praised the sites journalism, but said the publication struggled to gain large numbers of readers.
Despite the hard work of everyone on that staff, which has produced much outstanding journalism and great scoops, establishing a steady and sustainable audience for a relatively young site proved challenging in a fiercely competitive sector, Maidment said. Given that reality, the leadership team made the difficult decision to cease operation of Splinter and redistribute the headcount to the other sites to increase the impact the editorial department can have overall.
Maidment claimed there would be no reduction of G/O Medias editorial workforce as a result of this decision, and Splinters headcount would be reallocated across other sites at G/O, the network of former Gizmodo Media Group sites including Deadspin, Jezebel, Gizmodo, and Jalopnik, among others. Our goal, wherever possible, will be to retain current Splinter staff members in open positions at other G/O Media sites.
Some Splinter staffers, however, said theyve been laid off. Deputy editor Jack Mirkinson tweeted Splinter is shutting down and were all being laid off, and staff writer Sam Grasso wrote: Im getting laid off.
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Splinter is shutting down. (Original Post)
Celerity
Oct 2019
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Fusion TV news website (renamed Splinter in 2017) Progressive, youth-focused, think AOC-friendly
Celerity
Oct 2019
#3
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)1. I had/have no idea what Splinter was/is.
I literally had never heard about them until just this very moment.
snowybirdie
(5,227 posts)2. Which is
Probably a reason it's shutting down. Don't know it either.
Celerity
(43,388 posts)3. Fusion TV news website (renamed Splinter in 2017) Progressive, youth-focused, think AOC-friendly
Owned by Univision Communications Inc. that includes Gizmodo, Fusion TV, The Onion, The AV Club, The Root, etc etc.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)4. That's the Gizmodo subdomain mostly centering on politics
Celerity
(43,388 posts)5. yes, it used to be the Fusion TV news website until 2017, Libby Watson was probably their best known
writer, and she left and went to The New Republic 2 months ago.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)7. Well, I'm sad about it
I like Splinter
Celerity
(43,388 posts)8. I thought they were quite good too, although not well liked here by some
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)6. BREAKING: Internet News Outlet Nobody Ever Heard of Shuts Down!
Video at 25 o'Clock...
Celerity
(43,388 posts)9. they were #1825 out of millions of US sites and their articles were posted here on occasion