Feanor Posted January 17 Posted January 17 (edited) Quote Condé Nast is merging Pitchfork, the digital music publication it bought in 2015, with men’s magazine GQ — a move that will result in layoffs at Pitchfork, including the exit of editor-in-chief Puja Patel. Quote “Today we are evolving our Pitchfork team structure by bringing the team into the GQ organization. This decision was made after a careful evaluation of Pitchfork’s performance and what we believe is the best path forward for the brand so that our coverage of music can continue to thrive within the company,” Wintour wrote in the memo. Quote Pitchfork staffers who were laid off included features editor Jill Mapes, who posted on X/Twitter about getting pink-slipped. “I’ve referred to my job at pitchfork as being on a ferris wheel at closing time, just waiting for them to yank me down,” Mapes wrote in the post. “after nearly 8 yrs, mass layoffs got me. glad we could spend that time trying to make it a less dude-ish place just for GQ to end up at the helm.” This is tragic… Edited January 17 by Feanor 4
Popular Post Karla Cabello Posted January 17 Popular Post Posted January 17 @halsey come here quick 2 44
Popular Post poki Posted January 17 Popular Post Posted January 17 The basement finally collapsed 5 2 88
Popular Post sunbathinganimal Posted January 17 Popular Post Posted January 17 there will be a lot of people kii'ing in this thread but this is genuinely so sad 56 6 1 2
Popular Post Achilles. Posted January 17 Popular Post Posted January 17 (edited) The If I Can’t Have Acclaim I Want The Basement They Run Pitchfork Out Of To Collapse prophetess won. Feel like this is the death knell for poptimism though. Edited January 17 by Achilles. 12 26
Popular Post Bosque Posted January 17 Popular Post Posted January 17 They were providing nothing worthwhile for years now, so that makes sense 26
Gui Blackout Posted January 17 Posted January 17 This is kinda shocking tbh, I thought they had a good enough following and readership. If even they are being folded, it's really over for other music publications. 4
Popular Post Khal Posted January 17 Popular Post Posted January 17 Oh no, which reviewer will I pretend is trash when they score my fave low and uphold their opinion when the score is high? 1 22
Gwendolyn Posted January 17 Posted January 17 (edited) We are never getting the drag-worthy Pitchfork reviews again especially if they fold into GQ, they want to be on celebs good sides so they can appear on their covers Edited January 17 by Gwendolyn 5
Popular Post nostalgic Posted January 17 Popular Post Posted January 17 2024 off to a fabulous start RIP to the years of biased, pretentious, schizophrenic nonsense that they called music criticism. 39 5 4 1 17
Gerardo Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Does this mean no more pitchfork reviews at all? Or will they just re-brand and have less staff critics? Will it be GQ critic reviews? 1
Popular Post glitch Posted January 17 Popular Post Posted January 17 6 minutes ago, sunbathinganimal said: there will be a lot of people kii'ing in this thread but this is genuinely so sad Yeah, people are losing their jobs. I hope they at least continue the reviews because contrary to ATRL popular opinion, reading music reviews is actually interesting and a good way of discovering new artists. I first listened to CTRL by SZA because of a review in the Guardian 17
Dolce Vita Posted January 17 Posted January 17 the “everything is blue” chanteuse is smiling somewhere 1 5
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