“Gawker always existed on the strengths of its writers and editors, and this group is really, really good. I love them.”— Leah Finnegan, gawker.com
“Vice’s position – private or public – in the evolving landscape has yet to be officially defined.”— Ted Johnson, Jill Goldsmith, deadline.com
“About 18 of MEL's roughly two dozen staffers will be rehired and will return to MEL under the new ownership structure.”— Sara Fischer, axios.com
“We’re doing a full-year campaign with them as the face of the brand. We have created content with them for everything we do.”— Shai Eisenman, beautyindependent.com
“The reason companies use Facebook and Google is not only because they have scale. It’s also because the ads just plain work. If they didn’t, the scale wouldn’t matter. There’s a reason we never hear about Facebook and Google ads being a race to the bottom. Costs are actually increasing and clients h…”— A Media Operator, amediaoperator.com
“She’s really interested in queer voices, she’s really interested in feminist voices, she’s really interested in voices on body size, all kinds of different conversations that are really exciting right now, and I think are the future.”— Amy Hundley, nytimes.com
“The publication would rely on an algorithm to gauge how many readers bought a subscription because of a specific writer, the people said. Mr. Kelly is recruiting some of his former colleagues, the people added.”— Edmund Lee, Lauren Hirsch, nytimes.com
“I had a KitKat, my girlfriend gave me a gong bath and I went home and cleaned the dishwasher. I guess that’s growing up.”— Jack Rivlin, jackrivlin.medium.com
“The Song of Achilles” is selling about 10,000 copies a week, roughly nine times as much as when it won the prestigious Orange Prize. It is third on the New York Times best-seller list for paperback fiction.”— Elizabeth A. Harris, nytimes.com
“Employees were told that they did not have to take the buyouts but that their jobs would most likely change if they stayed, the people said.”— Katie Robertson, nytimes.com
“I like Substack as a product. And I am excited by the opportunities it's offering writers. But it is also increasingly hard to ignore a community moderation time bomb waiting to go off as it pulls writers who are more and more brazenly organizing harassment campaigns.”— Ryan Broderick , rt.com
“There may be something distasteful about the fact that Substack benefits from journalists’ financial desperation. But ultimately the core problem here is not that a newsletter platform is helping cash-strapped writers squeeze some tips out of their Twitter followings.”— Eric Levitz, nymag.com
“Leadership at media companies having no real idea what their publications do or how they work—especially the ones led by people of color—is insultingly common (I know this—well—from experience). And that’s partly how you get situations like this.”— Aleksander Chan, discourseblog.com
“The company did not clarify whether the allegations would affect future partnerships between the brand and Dobrik when asked.”— Amanda Perelli, businessinsider.com
“The Condé Nast executive who shared details of the process that went into Ms. McCammond’s hiring disputed that characterization of the meeting.”— Katie Robertson, nytimes.com
“Facebook says that since 2018 it has invested $600 million to support journalism and recently said it plans to invest $1 billion in news over the next three years.”— Todd Spangler, variety.com
“Pre-internet, such people would have been confined to relaying their theories on the phone and in the mail. But thanks to the internet, it’s simple to develop a following.”— Paul Mulshine, nj.com