Dan Raywoood of Press Gazette examines the struggles facing technology-oriented publications.
Raywood writes, “In recent months both Techcrunch and Business Insider have made deep cuts to their technology industry reporting teams.
“Mashable and CNET owner Ziff Davis, in the US, made redundancies at the end of 2024 and again in March 2025. And Techcrunch made an earlier round of layoffs in January (said to be less than ten people).
“Computer Weekly editor Bryan Glick said it has been a ‘very tough market’ since the pandemic which saw marketing budgets cut.
“‘Those publications who are more dependent on advertising have been the ones that have suffered the most,’ he said. ‘Those that have been through a transformation and come out with a new business model, arguably have been able to survive that correction in tech marketing spend better than others have.'”
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