News: DCist.com retired by WAMU

News: DCist.com retired by WAMU

Venerable Washington DC website DCist.com has been retired by its owner WAMU. The Dcist.com URL redirects to WAMU.

From Washingtonian

“DCist was originally owned by the company Gothamist. Joe Ricketts, the billionaire who bought it in 2017, shut down the site that same year after employees voted to unionize. (One reason, a spokesperson claimed: “The decision by the editorial team to unionize is simply another competitive obstacle making it harder for the business to be financially successful.”) The next year, two anonymous donations allowed WAMU to buy DCist. The idea, its then content boss Andi McDaniel told Washingtonian, was for WAMU to learn from DCist’s digital savvy and operate the two newsrooms in tandem.”

DCist Has Been Shut Down Again, This Time by WAMU

You can still check it out through InternetArchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240223000026/https://dcist.com/