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		dlivingston on Feb 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork I read Ars multiple times a week. It's not Pulitzer-winning stuff, but certainly more thoughtful than The Verge. Can someone help me understand why it's being panned as losing quality?

rsingel on Feb 7, 2024 [–]

It has monthly page view quotas for writers, which changes what gets covered.

It laid off or lost most of its best tech policy writers, including Joe Mullin, Cyrus Farivar, David Kravets, and Timothy B Lee.

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