The Plug is unplugging
The Plug, which covers Black and brown technology companies and is led by Sherrell Dorsey, has stopped providing content after seven years. Dorsey writes, “I just knew that Black founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders deserved better reporting, data insights that documented our stories, and platforms that built communities and not just content full of click-bait and […]
Vox is retiring the Recode brand
Vox announced it will retire the branding for technology news site Recode and The Goods. Journalist work will appear Vox’s technology section for Recode, and Vox’s culture and money sections for The Goods. Recode was started in January 2014 by former Wall Street Journal technology journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who had run its […]
Sqoop, site used by biz reporters, is shutting down
Sqoop, a site used by business journalists to track Securities and Exchange Commission filings, as well as U.S. Patent and Trademark filings and federal lawsuits, is shutting. Founder Bill Hankes sent out the following on Friday: Hi everyone, I’m writing to share the disappointing news that I will be shutting down Sqoop. As most of you know, […]
Tech news site Protocol is closing after two-plus years
Protocol, the technology news website launched by former Politico owner and publisher Robert Allbritton in early 2020, will shutter later this week and lay off dozens of staffers, reports Oliver Darcy at CNN. Darcy reports, “Staffers were told at an all-hands meeting Tuesday that the news organization will cease publishing on its website Thursday. The outlet’s […]
CNBC has cancelled “The News with Shepard Smith” to focus on biz news
CNBC has canceled “The News with Shepard Smith,” its primetime general news show, to refocus on business and market coverage, reports Alex Sherman of CNBC.com. Sherman writes, “The network announced the news Thursday in an e-mail to CNBC employees. Smith will be leaving the network later this month, according to a person familiar with the […]
Gannett shutting Boston real estate publication
Gannett is shutting the real estate news publication Boston Homes, reports Boston Business Journal managing editor Don Seiffert. Seiffert writes, “In a letter to readers published in the final edition, Boston Homes publisher David Petruska wrote that the newspaper published ‘well over 3,675 home portraits ranging from studios to penthouses to single-family homes,’ and ran ‘thousands of […]
Bustle is closing tech publication Input
Bustle Digital Group is closing its tech publication Input, reports Mark Stenberg of Adweek. Stenberg writes, “In total, BDG will lay off 19 staffers, with the majority of the cuts coming from Mic and impacting mostly the editorial team, according to an internal email shared with Adweek. The company declined to offer a reason for the layoffs or […]
Columbus CEO switching to quarterly print schedule
Columbus CEO magazine is switching to a quarterly print schedule. A story on its website states, “Due to economic forces, Columbus CEO is switching to a quarterly frequency: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. Our July issue marks the last one as a monthly. After skipping August and September, CEO will return with its Fall issue in October—followed in 2023 by […]
The Business of Business site loses editorial staff
The Business of Business, a publication from Thinknum that launched in 2018, has lost most of its editorial staff due to financial issues. The publication had three full time writers and two editors, but now only editor in chief Christie Smythe remains. Gone are: Karen Ho, a senior writer hired just more than a month ago. She has […]
New England Cable News to end “This Week in Business”
Doug Banks, the executive editor of the Boston Business Journal, writes about the end of “This Week in Business,” a Sunday television show on New England Cable News. Banks writes, “For 18 years, New England Cable News has aired a half-hour Sunday news program focused on the business called This Week in Business, offering three segments […]
