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AEG-owned blogging platform Examiner.com to close
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 8 July 2016
Prolific blogger network Examiner.com – operated by live entertainment giant AEG since 2014 – is to close down. The thousands of writers who contribute to the site were informed about the decision earlier this week, with the platform set to stop pumping out new content as of next week.
Examiner.com was originally owned by the Clarity Media Group, which shares a parent company with AEG. It was moved over to the latter in 2014, seemingly with plans to more closely align the online operation with the growing media side of AEG’s ticketing business AXS.
But now, it seems, the priority at AEG is very much the AXS.com set-up, and while there are hopes that some of the former contributors to Examiner.com – called “examiners” – might start writing for the AXS site, that is likely to be a minority of those writers, not least because Examiner.com had a much wider editorial remit.
AEG spokesman Michael Roth is quoted by Inquisitr as saying: “We’ve shifted our content focus to AXS.com and growing that platform. We’re still going to have hundreds of music and live-entertainment contributors to AXS.com, and I’m anticipating that some of our Examiners from Examiner.com will be applying for jobs, and perhaps many of them will stay on”.
Meanwhile AXS.com’s Justin Jimenez, who was previously a director at Examiner.com, told The Denver Post: “The media landscape and media consumption, it’s transformed dramatically. It wasn’t an easy decision. The Examiner.com experience has been a very positive one”.
