The Village Voice, another New York publication, stopped its print edition in September after more than 60 years. But many observers pointed to a decision in the Gothamist newsroom last week to join a union as impetus behind the timing of the closure. Ricketts founded DNAinfo in 2009 to cover street-level news in New York City and report “stories that weren’t getting told”, he said. In March the company bought Gothamist, which also covered Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Shanghai through a network of sister sites. “Infuriated by what just happened w/ DNAinfo & Gothamist,” activist Shaun King said on Twitter.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2017 05:48 UTC