{"id":114806,"date":"2023-11-29T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/jezebel-acquired-by-paste-magazine\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:45:54","slug":"jezebel-acquired-by-paste-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/jezebel-acquired-by-paste-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Jezebel Acquired by Paste Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jezebel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jezebel\" data-tag=\"jezebel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jezebel<\/a> is getting resurrected, underneath new administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThree weeks in the past, the previous proprietor of the feminist information and opinion web site, private-equity backed G\/O Media, introduced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/digital\/news\/jezebel-shutting-down-go-media-layoffs-1235785877\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shuttering Jezebel \u2014 and shedding the workers \u2014 after failing to discover a purchaser<\/a>. Now <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/paste-magazine\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paste-magazine\" data-tag=\"paste-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paste Magazine<\/a>, an Atlanta-based leisure and tradition publication, has snapped up Jezebel, which has been \u201cknown for its fearless, female-empowering content,\u201d per the corporate\u2019s announcement of the acquisition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTerms of Jezebel\u2019s sale should not being disclosed. Paste Magazine is buying the Jezebel model and its archive of content material. As but, not one of the staff who most not too long ago labored at Jezebel are on board \u2014 however Josh Jackson, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Paste Magazine, mentioned he\u2019s been talking with former Jezebel staffers about returning to the publication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJackson mentioned the acquisition of Jezebel marks a major step for his firm in broadening its attain. He mentioned Paste is dedicated to \u201cpreserving Jezebel\u2019s editorial independence\u201d and sustaining its \u201cdistinctive voice.\u201d He mentioned after G\/O Media shut down Jezebel, \u201cWe reached out to see if maybe we could be the ones to bring it back to life and to do it quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJackson is planning to revive Jezebel with a \u201csoft launch\u201d this week with new content material written by Paste\u2019s writers, earlier than he hires an editor-in-chief and different workers members for the positioning. \u201cOur staff are all Jezebel fans,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe are honored to bring Jezebel back to life and excited to welcome the site into the Paste Magazine family,\u201d Jackson mentioned. \u201cThe acquisition means that the critical information and content that Jezebel readers have come to rely on will live on\u2026 Jezebel\u2019s unique voice and commitment to storytelling make it a perfect addition to our portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn addition, underneath the cope with G\/O Media, Paste acquired politics web site Splinter \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/digital\/news\/splinter-shut-down-go-media-1203366015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which had been shut down in 2019<\/a> \u2014 and plans to relaunch it subsequent yr forward of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Jackson mentioned the cope with G\/O Media, an all-cash deal, was closed Nov. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPaste Magazine was first launched in 2002 as a music-focused print publication, which ceased in 2010 as the corporate pivoted to a digital-only mannequin. The web site covers music, motion pictures, TV, gaming, and different tradition and life-style subjects. The magazine\u2019s mother or father firm, Paste Media Group, is owned by Bill Sagan, CEO of Wolfgang\u2019s, a purveyor of music memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJezebel, which had carried a tagline \u201cSex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth,\u201d was initially launched in 2007 by Nick Denton\u2019s Gawker Media. After Gawker Media was sued into chapter 11 by Hulk Hogan, Jezebel and the corporate\u2019s different websites (excluding Gawker.com) have been offered to Univision earlier than they ended up altering fingers once more in a sale to G\/O Media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSeparately, the Gawker model was purchased in a chapter public sale by Bustle Digital Media, which <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/digital\/news\/gawker-shutting-down-1235509262\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled the plug on a rebooted model of the snarky web site earlier in 2023<\/a>. BDG ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/digital\/news\/gawker-sold-meng-ru-kuok-caldecott-music-group-1235791943\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoting Gawker to Meng Ru Kuok, CEO and founding father of Caldecott Music Group<\/a>, whose holdings embrace BandLab\u00a0and NME.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Jezebel is getting resurrected, underneath new administration. Three weeks in the past, the previous proprietor of the feminist information and opinion web site, private-equity backed G\/O Media, introduced it was shuttering Jezebel \u2014 and shedding the workers \u2014 after failing to discover a purchaser. Now Paste Magazine, an Atlanta-based leisure and tradition publication, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-114806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}