Famed local news sites Gothamist and DNAInfo were shut down on Thursday, a week after their newsrooms voted to unionize. “DNAinfo is, at the end of the day, a business, and businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure,” owner and founder Joe Ricketts—a billionaire mogul who also owns the Chicago Cubs—wrote in a letter. “And while we made important progress toward building DNAinfo into a successful business, in the end, that progress hasn’t been sufficient to support the tremendous effort and expense needed to produce the type of journalism on which the company was founded.”
A spokesperson for the company said the editorial team’s vote to unionize played a role in the decision to shutter the sites. The decision leaves a reported 115 staffers out of work. Ricketts only recently acquired Gothamist in March 2017. Read more at the NEW YORK TIMES.
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Won’t matter. DeBlasio will win reelection in a landslide of epiic proportions. The Republican party is DEAD and Democrats ALWAYS circle the wagons for one of their own. ALWAYS.
Now the union can take a long vacation together.
That’s right if you just keep on making your demands and I’ll get your real far straight to the unemployment line because I don’t have a company for you to profit it’s for me to profit and if I can’t make money business closes