Is Jalopnik sticking around?

"Dr_Watson" (dr_watson)
11/17/2015 at 18:07 • Filed to: None

I was reading the NY Times and noticed an article about Gawker cutting a bunch of properties (io9 is dying :( ). They don’t say concretely who’s getting the axe, is Jalopnik “ok”?

Among about a dozen smaller sites to be shuttered , Mr. Cook said in his memo, are Valleywag, which covered Silicon Valley. The areas of coverage that those sites focused on will now be addressed by the remaining seven sites. Jezebel, he said, will now “become the primary voice for celebrity and pop culture coverage in the network.” Gizmodo, which recently hired a new editor, Katie Drummond, from Bloomberg, will take over the coverage of science fiction, fantasy and futurism that was previously handled by the site io9.

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DISCUSSION (27)

Patrick George > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 18:10

Jalopnik lives to hoon another day.

Dr_Watson > Patrick George
11/17/2015 at 18:14

Great news everybody!

Thanks for the reply Patrick. Keep up the good work.

HammerheadFistpunch > Patrick George
11/17/2015 at 18:14

Patrick, do you know whats happening with Wes?

Chris Clarke > HammerheadFistpunch
11/17/2015 at 18:22

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HammerheadFistpunch > Chris Clarke
11/17/2015 at 18:23

I just this morning sent him an email and he usually gets right back to me...I guess I know why.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 18:31

“Jezebel, he said, will now “become the primary voice for celebrity and pop culture coverage in the network.””

Hmmm... so the feministing thing won’t be Jezebel’s primary focus anymore.

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 18:33

I really just don’t understand Gawker Media. Their business model literally makes no sense to me.

Maybe because I have to continually remind myself that their writers are PAID. I bet most of us would take over being editors for free.

Dr_Watson > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
11/17/2015 at 18:34

Just now with more Miley Cyrus nudes.

Dr_Watson > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
11/17/2015 at 18:36

We’d probably be surprised at how much of it feels like real work after a while though. I’ve run some forums before and it gets to feel like an office job pretty quickly. Something at this scale needs a paycheck I’m sure.

PushToStart > Patrick George
11/17/2015 at 18:43

So I don’t know if this has been asked or addressed elsewhere that I haven’t seen yet, and I’m not sure if you know either, but what does this mean (if it means anything at all) for Oppositelock (and similar sub-blog communities)?

Obligatory “I’m a dumbass update”: I’ve scrolled down a bit. The answer I seek has been given already. Right on.

Textured Soy Protein > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 18:44

The company will now focus on its seven core sites, which include the technology site Gizmodo and the sports site Deadspin

The “seven core sites” mentioned by the NYT are:

Gawker

Jezebel

Deadspin

Gizmodo

Lifehacker

I’m assuming that even though they are not mentioned by name by the NYT, that #6 and #7 are Kotaku and Jalopnik.

However, this is clearly the best line in the whole article:

Plans to license Gawker’s content management system, Kinja, will also be shelved.

Kinja'd!!!

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 18:48

IO9! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Justin T. Westbrook > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 18:50

Also, the Giz/io9 merger has been a thing for a while. It’s not like all of io9 is gone. Just a melding of interests and resources.

jariten1781 > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
11/17/2015 at 18:54

They’re not going away...just becoming a subsite of Giz for some reason. Doesn’t look like any major change to writers or schedules so

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Rico > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 18:58

It definitely would be hard work and to do it for free would get tiring really quick.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 18:58

Not gonna complain about that.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
11/17/2015 at 19:02

*so Jezebel can drop the pretense.

FIFY

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 19:03

I guess Oppo will still keep going as it has been?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 19:11

Yes, the mods of Oppo would gladly take a paycheck.

Please.

Dr_Watson > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
11/17/2015 at 19:12

Yeah, theres some earlier threads confirming non-paid subblogs like oppo are sticking around.

Dr_Watson > Textured Soy Protein
11/17/2015 at 19:16

Patrick confirmed Jalopnik. Kotaku in #7 makes sense.

On a tangent... I expect this means the mindless animated gif factory known as sploid is dead. So that’s good news.

Jayvincent > Textured Soy Protein
11/17/2015 at 19:22

This may have caused a snort of derision... unless North Korea was looking for a content management system? Seriously, someone would pay for the privilege of being kinja’d?

"Plans to license Gawker’s content management system, Kinja, will also be shelved."

TR3 > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 19:27

What? Gawker going to retool? I thought they were already a tool.

spiderseverywhere > Textured Soy Protein
11/17/2015 at 20:39

Wired posted the internal memos from denton and cook.

In denton’s memo, he calls out Gawker, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Kotaku, and Jalopnik as the top 7.

I’m a little worried about this statement in denton’s memo:

“On the technology front, we will no longer seek to develop Kinja as an open blogging platform, given the competition that exists from technology companies devoted entirely to that challenge.”

That might spell the end (in the long term) even for the “nonpaid” blogs like oppositelock.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Dr_Watson
11/17/2015 at 20:41

although I agree about the loss of sploid and the hopeful dropping of that insufferable bag of dicks Jesus Diaz from the gawker payroll, I’m not pleased at the idea that io9 may be going away :|

Dr_Watson > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
11/17/2015 at 20:52

Ive been informed in other replies that io9 will be a sub of gizmodo. So not totally going away. That should work out. Tech and sci-fi are two sides to the same nerd coin... Quite a bit of content overlap. Gizmodo will certainly benifit from the additional brain cells, they’re often pretty hopeless when trying to cover space happenings.

Agrajag > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/17/2015 at 22:32

A check for $3.50 is on its way.

More seriously, you all deserve many accolades and actual money.