Jezebel has found a new home: Atlanta-based music magazine Paste.
The resurrection of the groundbreaking feminist website comes just a few weeks after its abrupt closure by G/O Media sparked outrage and a wave of mournful tributes.
Paste magazine bought the site Tuesday and hopes to start posting new content on the site as early as Wednesday, Josh Jackson, co-founder and editor of Paste, told The New York Times.
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“The idea of there not being a Jezebel right now just didn’t seem to make sense,” he said. So far, neither Jezebel nor Splinter—a political news site also acquired by Paste as part of the deal—has any employees. Jackson said his first order of business would be finding an editor in chief for the resurrected Jezebel, and then he’d move on to hiring writers.
The Daily Beast was the first to report earlier this month that the site was about to be resurrected as several buyers expressed interest in purchasing it from the beleaguered G/O Media.
Paste editor Josh Jackson has already made offers to some staffers who lost their jobs when Jezebel was shut down, sources familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast. He is also looking to make a final decision on the website's editor-in-chief by next week.
Initially, Jezebel will maintain a small full-time staff, multiple sources added, noting that it will likely be close to the size it was when the site was shut down last month. Contributors and freelancers will be heavily relied upon for content in the early stages of a new Jezebel.
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