2023-05-11
27 分钟Gal-dem, Buzzfeed News and Vice have all hit financial trouble and are either shutting down or close to it. Chanté talks to the Guardian’s media editor Jim Waterson and Gal-dem’s former politics editor Moya Lothian-McLean about where it is all going wrong.
This is The Guardian, Gaudam, BuzzFeed News, Vice.
Why are so many publications in trouble?
Here at Gaudam, we're committed to sharing the perspectives of women and non binary people of color.
If you're still putting regular white cocaine up your nose, you're basically living in the 90s.
And if you work for BuzzFeed News, here are 22 reasons you're going to.
Be down to job.
You're listening to Pop Culture with me, Shantae Joseph for the Guardian.
Now listen, I have been waking up in a cold sweat every morning, afraid to check Twitter in case another publication I love is going under.
We've seen the closure of Gam, buzzfeed News, full editorial layoffs at Paper magazine, potential bankruptcy advice.
Need I go on?
I've been writing since I was like 17 and I owe so much of who I am and what I do to these publications.
It's also where I found my love for pop culture, why I'm hosting this podcast.
And it's from places like Gaudam, where I'd find out about new black and brown artists.
On buzzfeed, I'd read the best celeb interviews and insights.
And Vice has always been ahead of the curve on topics like club culture, drugs and music.
These are things many bigger publications just can't offer.
I remember being at the BBC and being asked to write an article about a duck in a wheelchair.
I totally want to know about the duck in a wheelchair.
Why am I writing an article about a duck in a wheelchair?
That's from a viral video.