Politicker Shuts Down 12 State Sites

Colorado Independent:

Twelve Politicker political news sites around the country, including PolitickerCO.com in Colorado, were shut down and their reporters unexpectedly laid off Friday morning. The sites, billed as "Inside politics for political insiders," covered news in 17 states around the country and are owned by the Observer Media Group, based in New York.

Politicker.com sites in New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania will remain operating, according to a source with the company. Sites in Arizona, California, Colorado, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont and Washington state will disappear.

Most of the sites, including Colorado's, employed a single reporter to cover local political news, which was then aggregated on a national site. Jeremy Pelzer, the lone PolitickerCO.com reporter, has been based out of the state Capitol since January and is among those who learned of the layoffs Friday morning, according to a source with the news organization.

Read the whole story: Colorado Independent

Comments

[wembakoy]

11:42 AM on 12/13/2008

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Thanks

[Jacques415]

03:32 AM on 12/13/2008

This is the first time I've ever heard of "Politicker". I went, I looked, I'm not impressed. A website run by some New York tabloid is going broke, and this is news?

[majorteddy]

10:19 PM on 12/12/2008

On top of that , we have decided that the United States can no longer afford politics due to the Bush depression, and we are shutting down politics in all 50 states.

[larry278]

08:16 PM on 12/12/2008

Remember, the parent, NYO, is, in theory, a profit making enterprise. Do they read west of the Poconos?