In recent years, we’ve seen the shuttering of
Bitch Media, [Feministing[(
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/business/media/feminist-blogs-feministing.html),
The Hairpin,
Feminist Frequency,
Lenny Letter, and
Rookie, among other feminist digital media sites. In addition, feminist verticals from
Vice and
Slate were rolled into their main sites, leaving little trace of their original formats and, in some cases, causing link rot as an unintended consequence of strategy shifts. Most of these publications cited the unfriendly business model for digital media and the struggle to run financially sustainable online news sources as the root cause of either their closure.