WNYC, KPCC, and WAMU acquire LAist and Gothamist archives
In a nice “screw you” to the corporate masters of the world, public radio stations WNYC, KPCC, and WAMU have acquired the archives of local news brand Gothamist as well as some of its sister publications like LAist, DCist, and DNAInfo. This deal will allow the archives of the sites to remain online following their sudden shutdown last year, when billionaire Joe Ricketts shuttered the sites and pulled all of their old stories from the internet just a week after they voted to unionize. Gothamist will also be fully resurrected this year and will continue publishing new stories, though they won’t be rehiring the fired Gothamist staffers just yet.