He marked his purchase of Chicagoist — formerly part of the media empire of Joe Ricketts, whose family owns the Cubs — by beefing with Crain’s Chicago Business.
“We wanted to focus on neighborhoods and we wanted to have a membership model. We didn’t get to do it our way at DNA, at least on the business side. So we said, ‘Let’s just do it our way now.'”
Signs that the sites’ owner Joe Ricketts didn’t hold journalistic independence sacrosanct came soon after DNAinfo acquired Gothamist LLC, which promptly deleted at least five stories since 2010 about its new owner.
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Bilton, Ricardo. "The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Nov. 2017. Web. 26 Jul. 2024.
APA
Bilton, R. (2017, Nov. 3). The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/the-risk-of-billionaire-funded-media-the-importance-of-archiving-and-other-takeaways-from-the-demise-of-dnainfo-and-gothamist/
Chicago
Bilton, Ricardo. "The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 3, 2017. Accessed July 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/the-risk-of-billionaire-funded-media-the-importance-of-archiving-and-other-takeaways-from-the-demise-of-dnainfo-and-gothamist/.
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