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finally able to mention that some pals and I started our own music publication!!!!!!!!!
@hearingthingsco
Jill Mapes
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- 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. 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
- it's honestly incredible that various pop stan groups are celebrating my layoff as payback, that's iconic? am i iconic?
- just hit publish on the last I'll ever edit at p4k. thousands of articles, hundreds of writers, i feel deeply honored to have learned from all of it
- the way I woke up today scheming about building something new, not crying about p4k, feels so intense to me that I am now in fact crying
- I just want to reiterate that the audience is there, and the ppl who are failing to monetize it are the ones to blame, not us
- I get angrier each day that they didn’t just sell the site to someone who gets it, likes it, or even read it once
will media survive? we asked the people who laid off you and your peers- I can’t get over the attention-seeking pop star but maybe more so: the attention-seeking critic who rejoined Twitter for one day and took to popheads to proudly promote her own anti-critic response
- this was one of my favorite reviews I've ever written, and I wrote it while my mom fought for her life after emergency surgery... criticism never has to use the word "I" to be deeply deeply personal
- reviewed a towering epic in the halls of history
- Replying to @jillian_mapesI gotta say, it's an honor to go down in a full-department gutting w/ my brother @ryandombal, the person who put features on p4k in the 1st place and taught me a lot of what I know about editing longform
- Sam quit Twitter but he wrote a thoughtful piece on what makes MJ Lenderman's flawed protagonists redeeming, for @hearingthingsco
- one more thing before i log off: this was probably my favorite piece i edited at p4k: music i love, a writer i love, the wide scope + deep insight of the criticism. seeing it on the screen at ASMEs when @CatZhang1 got her Next award was the cherry on top
