Jezebel Acquired by Paste Magazine

Jezebel, the net girls’s journal recognized for its playful, at instances biting commentary that shut down editorial operations final month, has been acquired by Paste journal, a music and tradition web site, the New York Occasions reported.

Paste’s founder Josh Jackson mentioned the web site has plans to renew Jezebel’s editorial operations and start publishing as early as Wednesday.

Final month, former Jezebel guardian firm G/O Media’s chief govt Jim Spanfeller wrote in a memo that the organisation had been unsuccessful find a purchaser for Jezebel. This triggered an editorial reshuffle at G/O Media which resulted in 23 staffers, together with the corporate’s editorial director Merrill Brown, leaving the enterprise.

With the acquisition, Jackson hopes to first rent a brand new editor-in-chief for the journal then construct out Jezebel’s editorial group. The acquisition was an all-cash deal and Jackson declined to state the determine his firm had paid to amass the title.

”We’ve gone by all of the totally different adjustments within the media panorama and stayed unbiased and have survived and thought, ‘Hey, perhaps we are able to do that with different websites as nicely,’” Jackson informed the New York Occasions.

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