This marks the second Kotaku EIC in 7 months driven out by G/O Media’s aggressive mismanagement and Jim Spanfeller’s blatant disregard for journalism.
It is very clear that leadership wants to undermine the people who make these sites special and replace their work with slop.
Some ✨personal✨news:
✊🏻THE #IGNCG HAS BEEN GRANTED VOLUNTARY RECOGNITION✊🏻
We’re still working out the final composition of our union, but we are thrilled @IGN came to the table and recognized us!
✨Hey, Listen!✨
We are the IGN Creators Guild and today, we're uniting in solidarity as we strive for a stronger, more equitable @IGN.
Support the #IGNCG by signing our petition: https://t.co/fYONeI1Xde
@NewsGuild@CWAUnion
Today, GMG unit members stood in solidarity with our sister union The Onion Union to deliver a letter of solidarity to G/O Deputy Editorial Director @lea, urging G/O Media to bargain in good faith.
Today, The Onion Union and its allies distributed flyers outside our Chicago, NYC, and LA offices. We regret wasting time in the physical world when we should be creating digital content to be clogged with ads and SEO terms designed to game search engines.
Thank you so much to @adamconover, @joshgondelman, and @zhubinparang for joining us at the bargaining table this morning to present a pledge from former Onion contributors to support our fight for a fair contract.
The Onion would like to congratulate its owner, G/O Media, for standing firm in its return-to-office mandate, as we can think of nowhere more conducive to best-in-class thought leadership than a fluorescent-lit room populated with the abandoned desks of terminated colleagues.
I’m obviously boiling and have too much to say on this subject. But for now I’ll just say my heart is with the entire Jez staff who just got laid off, including incredible abortion reporters at a time when the beat couldn’t be more relevant to national politics. Please hire them.
Support the Jezebel staffers who lost their jobs today and buy them a drink!!!
Everything you send goes directly to @l_tousignant, @RichJuz, @SusanRinkunas, @AudraHeinrichs, @kylietcheung, @caitlinrcruz, and @kady_ruth. An incredible team of writers and editors (hire them!).
If you're driving anywhere tonight, please don't kill anyone's kid. Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians.
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@TeenBoyMom@WoodardColin@ColinWoodAuthor@sneaknsneak Most of the people who would love to email Colin to complain about what he wrote can't log into their email accounts anymore now that their kids have stopped talking to them and won't remind them of their passwords.
@WoodardColin@TeenBoyMom@ColinWoodAuthor@sneaknsneak It's really quite simple:
Colin Woodard - Writes about serious topics that actually matter
Colin Woodward - Writes about similar serious topics that also matter
Colin Woodward UK - Tory, also yikes
Collin Woodard - Upsets Tesla weirdos and wrote about the Toyota EV butt plug