Less than one week after a contentious unionization effort ended with local New York news sites DNAInfo and Gothamist voting to unionize, the sites’ owner, billionaire Joe Ricketts, announced on Thursday that he was shutting both sites down.
Ricketts also shuttered sister sites that had not attempted to unionize, such as Chicagoist, SFist, LAist and DCist. The New York Times reported that 115 journalists had lost their jobs in total.
Less than one week after a contentious unionization effort ended with local New York news sites DNAInfo and Gothamist voting to unionize, the sites’ owner, billionaire Joe Ricketts, announced on Thursday that he was shutting both sites down.
Ricketts also shuttered sister sites that had not attempted to unionize, such as Chicagoist, SFist, LAist and DCist. The New York Times reported that 115 journalists had lost their jobs in total.
Ricketts also shuttered sister sites that had not attempted to unionize, such as Chicagoist, SFist, LAist and DCist. The New York Times reported that 115 journalists had lost their jobs in total.
Less than one week after a contentious unionization effort ended with local New York news sites DNAInfo and Gothamist voting to unionize, the sites’ owner, billionaire Joe Ricketts, announced on Thursday that he was shutting both sites down.
Ricketts also shuttered sister sites that had not attempted to unionize, such as Chicagoist, SFist, LAist and DCist. The New York Times reported that 115 journalists had lost their jobs in total.