like 6 months ago. Not a larger deal. Univision had a shitload of debt and the vampires got it for cheap. The ironic part is the advertisers love their site and they're pretty damn profitable. There's literally no upside to doing this.
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Jason Schreier of Kotaku posts a really ominous tweet
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like 6 months ago. Not a larger deal. Univision had a shitload of debt and the vampires got it for cheap. The ironic part is the advertisers love their site and they're pretty damn profitable. There's literally no upside to doing this.
I dont have 1UP. If I lose Kotaku, I'll be stuck reading sugar coated Famitsu, and will probably just die.
I hope the management comes to their senses, and nobody else loses their jobs.
Good luck and solidarity to anyone reading this involved in the struggle!
I hope the management comes to their senses, and nobody else loses their jobs.
Good luck and solidarity to anyone reading this involved in the struggle!
Is there a link to some of Barry's articles/comments/editorials somewhere?
Curious what he may have written that sparked his termination.
Private Equity companies at the beginning were pretty awesome in what they did. Nowadays, I'm not convinced the model adds value to anyone except themselves.
I hope they can pull a gametrailers and do their own thing.
Jason is too good of a reporter to not land back on his feet.
Jason is too good of a reporter to not land back on his feet.
What a fucking disaster. It's a goddamn shame these sites can't find an owner who isn't the worst group of ghouls possible.
Barry had been operating as the defacto editor in chief of the site. That means all the middle fingers to management were basically signed off by him. Rightfully so might I add.
I imagine that we're going to see firings first. Schreier and others walked against the company line and it looks like Jim Shitstain is on the warpath now, based on what just happened at Deadspin.
Hopefully Totilo and Schreier and the rest of the staff come out of this okay.
Surely the reason they're so hardcore about the ad revenue is because the economics are only getting tougher? If we're assuming this is related to the ad stuff from yesterday.
Jason used to speak very poorly of Kotaku before he got hired on over there, and to be honest I think he deserves better. If he gets laid off I hope a wonderful opportunity comes his way.
It's either a strike (best case) or people are fired (worst case).
Nope. Advertisers love the GMG sites, especially Deadspin. As I've said before, they're pretty damn profitable and have great traffic numbers. This is all about busting the union, silencing dissidence, and sucking GMG dry before moving on the next one. It's the private equity playbook.
Maybe this would be true...if that was their actual impetus in any way, but it wasn't . It was just the flashpoint. The staffs issues with the owners go way further back before the auto play ads stuff.
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G/O Media is the ownership group. Gizmodo media group is the family of sites and they are indeed unionized. When G/O bough them they handed out this handbook that had some pretty vile stuff in it that their union immediately rebuffed and said "yeah, no." So this is going to get very ugly very quick.
Maybe? I think the new boss is trying to flex his muscles and it's backfiring. My way or the highway.
I haven't actively read Kotaku as a single feed in a while, but I'll read articles from writers I like there frequently, and that number of writers/articles has only increased over time. It's not just Jason, so it's a little weird to see him always singled out. I feel like they've cultivated a nice relatively "new" group of people over the past few years.
Now, I really hope things end well for them, but even if this is just about a strike/more action against management... I have to imagine people will be trying to leave sooner rather than later. Obviously Kotaku's survived some bad situations before, but it's pretty understandable that you might want to get out when your bosses are behaving like this. And writing jobs can be pretty unstable positions in general, so it's particularly painful to see the management just absolutely fuck up a site that was seemingly doing solidly, for no reason at all.
I hadn't even noticed, lmao. Just being a rather boringly terrible troll or really that committed to being garbage? Who can say...
Now, I really hope things end well for them, but even if this is just about a strike/more action against management... I have to imagine people will be trying to leave sooner rather than later. Obviously Kotaku's survived some bad situations before, but it's pretty understandable that you might want to get out when your bosses are behaving like this. And writing jobs can be pretty unstable positions in general, so it's particularly painful to see the management just absolutely fuck up a site that was seemingly doing solidly, for no reason at all.
I hadn't even noticed, lmao. Just being a rather boringly terrible troll or really that committed to being garbage? Who can say...
For someone who is not actively following either deadspin or kotaku (I do really enjoy Jasons journalism though), could someone ELI5 on what's going down? in just a few lines.. a summary or something.
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ah my mistake. I"m sure Censored Gameing dot com has everything you need.
I was too worried about the potential loss of our best Trump writer that I didn't even think about this rippling out to other publications :(
TL;DR, The new owners, G/O Media, seem to be cracking down on all of their sites and forcing them to run ads they don't want to and forcing them to only write about certain content.
Definitely, just think it's not surprising this all seems to be about ad revenue.
I get that people take pride in their work, but journalists really should not be complaining about adverts on their own site (nor should users). How else are people going to get their wages paid for? That goes for every scummer using adblock too.
I see. Best of luck to all the employees.
Guessing a lot of dirty laundry is going do be aired in the coming weeks.