I'm not sure where to begin, except to say, with equal parts fury and sadness, that Waypoint is over. The team, myself included, have been terminated by VICE, and our final day running the website, the podcasts, and streams, will come to an end on June 2nd.
This news is sad, upsetting and, perhaps most of all, mindboggling. Over three years, Launcher attracted over tens of millions of users, the majority first-time readers of The Post and almost all of them under the age of 40.
Today The Washington Post decided to lay off five members of the Launcher team and sunset the site. I’m heartbroken to lose @LeaderGrev, @JhaanElker, @pithyalyse, @Shannon_Liao and @Vahn16 to The Post's layoffs. 🧵
just still kind of in shock. but we did spend a lot of this month talking about layoffs. here's my substack link, it's a big work in progress: https://t.co/KEEUun7hc8
1/ Not long ago, the @washingtonpost touted a global expansion that prioritized Spanish-language media in order to reach younger, more diverse audiences. Now, WaPo has cut verticals meant to do just that — @elpost & @postopinion_es — without notice to our newsroom or subscribers.
For the past 8 years, The Post has tracked data on every fatal police shooting across the country.
Today we’re releasing a revamped interactive & public dataset of each killing with additional fields & a more detailed methodology on how we’ve done it: https://t.co/0eYfgKbmUt
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This is a huge loss for CNN - Brandon's work is essential, he is the best to work with and I will really miss his newsletter in my inbox every week. Whoever snags him next is really lucky!!!
Hello! NORCO is now available for PlayStation & Xbox consoles. For those unfamiliar: the game is a text-based point & click tribute to Louisiana's River Parish region. We've recently added several quality-of-life features, including full controller support. More on that below.