Chance the Rapper raps about owning the local news site Chicagoist, which happens to be fact
Celebrated rapper and Chicagoan Chance the Rapper has just purchased the defunct Chicagoist, according to Robert Channick at the Chicago Tribune. The local news and culture site was once owned… Read more »
Skyhorse’s unionization effort has been defeated, while still managing to extract concessions from managment
John Maher at Publishers Weekly and Ginger Adam Otis at the New York Daily News both reported on Wednesday that Skyhorse Publishing’s historic attempt to unionize has fallen short at the… Read more »
Skyhorse Publishing is voting on whether to join the UAW Local 2110
It’s been sixteen years since a New York publishing house unionized, a streak that workers at Skyhorse Publishing hope to break tomorrow, when employees will vote on whether or not… Read more »
There is power in the union: The Writers Guild of America sucessfully negotiates concessions from Joe Ricketts after the closure of DNAinfo and Gothamist
Not quite two weeks after it was announced that billionaire bison enthusiast and big-time fucko Joe Ricketts was shuttering DNAinfo and Gothamist, Josh Eidelson, a labor reporter for Bloomberg News… Read more »
More and more, money talks
There’s a lot you could say about yesterday’s giant New York Times exposé on Louis C.K. For instance, that it is a bummer very mondo indeed to see another proclaimedly woke man turn out, in fact, to… Read more »
After merger, the staffs of Gothamist and DNAinfo are seeking union protections
Last month, we noted that staffers at Gothamist seemed to be facing the same concerns about editorial independence that their counterparts at Gawker Media had dealt with as they adjusted… Read more »
After buyout, Gothamist deletes posts critical of its new owner
For anyone unfazed by the news that Gothamist has been bought out by a site owned by conservative billionaire Joe Ricketts, the fact that the site subsequently scrubbed all its negative reporting… Read more »