Tag Archives: Gothamist

Billionaire Joe Ricketts Shuts Down Gothamist And DNAinfo, Deletes Their Archives After Writers Unionize

The New York Times reports: A week ago, reporters and editors in the combined newsroom of DNAinfo and Gothamist, two of New York City’s leading digital purveyors of local news, celebrated victory in their vote to join a union. On Thursday, they lost their jobs, as Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade who owned the sites, shut them …

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No, No, That Wasn’t A Question

“International Food & Restaurant Consultants, Baum + Whiteman, have sent out their 2015 trend report, which tells us all what we’ll be eating next year. What, you think this has nothing to do with you? You go to your refrigerator and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue cheese, for instance… But what you don’t know is that that …

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