Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Staff, 12/23/24

Headline: “Afterlife”

Subhead:  “Journalists who have left the traditional media on what they lost and what they gained.”

“At the start of this year, Condé Nast announced that Pitchfork would merge with GQ, and in the process laid off a dozen employees—or about half the publication’s staff. “Both Pitchfork and GQ have unique and valuable ways that they approach music journalism,” Anna Wintour, the chief content officer at Condé Nast, said in a staff memo at the time. . . .”

““It’s been a real learning curve, because, you know, I was an editor—I wasn’t really a manager at Pitchfork. Now we’re kind of all managers,” . . .”

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/afterlife-journalists-leaving-traditional-media-jobs.php