The original Gothamist blog was started in 2003 by Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung and quickly expanded to Los Angeles under editor Tom Berman. LAist covered news, culture, trends, events, media happenings and some politics — the site this year broke the news about City Council candidate Jo Bray-Ali's unsavory past, and lots of others.
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Ricketts' DNAInfo acquired the Gothamist sites earlier this year. He had started DNAInfo as a network of local news sites in 2009.
Ricketts had tried to put the fear in his New York employees about the vote about joining the Writers Guild in a September message, and many see his action today as retribution. The threat followed by shutdown will certainly be an item of discussion in the Los Angeles Times newsroom, where a large segment of the staff is actively trying to organize a guild unit there for the first time over the resistance of parent company Tronc.
Thursday, November 2, 2017
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Ricketts is a right wing nutjob who donated $1M to help elect Donald Trump. It had to chap his ass that Gothamist and LAist were full of liberal "fact" thingies that didn't support his bullshit. I have no idea why he bought them to begin with, other than to shut them down because they irked him.
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