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The A.V. Club

February 06, 2023

The A.V. Club is an American online newspaper[2] and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media. The A.V. Club was created in 1993 as a supplement to its satirical parent publication, The Onion. While it was a part of The Onion's 1996 website launch, The A.V. Club had minimal presence on the website at that point.

The A.V. Club
TypePopular culture, entertainment, news, reviews, politics, progressive
FormatInternet
Owner(s)G/O Media
Editor-in-chiefScott Robson[1]
Founded1993; 30 years ago (1993)
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois, U.S.
Websiteavclub.com

A 2005 website redesign placed The A.V. Club in a more prominent position, allowing its online identity to grow. Unlike The Onion, The A.V. Club and other sites owned by G/O Media are not satirical.[3] The publication's name is a reference to audiovisual (AV) clubs typical of American high schools.[4]

History

In 1993, five years after the founding of The Onion, Stephen Thompson, a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, launched an entertainment section of the newspaper.[citation needed]

In 1996, both The Onion and The A.V. Club debuted on the Internet.[5] The A.V. Club was originally a subsection[6] of the main theonion.com domain name.[citation needed]

The supplement was moved to its own domain name, theavclub.com,[7] before the 2005 acquisition of the shorter avclub.com domain name.[8] The latter change coincided with a redesign that incorporated reader comments and blog content. In 2006, the website shifted its content model again to add content on a daily, rather than weekly, basis. Some contributors have become established as freelance writers and editors.[citation needed]

In December 2004, Stephen Thompson left his position as founding editor of The A.V. Club.[9]

According to Sean Mills, then-president of The Onion, the A.V. Club website first reached more than 1 million unique visitors in October 2007.[10] In late 2009, the website was reported to have received more than 1.4 million unique visitors and 75,000 comments per month.[11]

At its peak, the print version of The A.V. Club was available in 17 different cities.[12] Localized sections of the website were also maintained, with reviews and news relevant to specific cities. The print version and localized websites were gradually discontinued, and in December 2013, print publication ceased production in the last three markets.[13]

2012–2014 staff departures

On 13 December 2012, long-time writer and editor Keith Phipps, who oversaw the website after Stephen Thompson left, stepped down from his role as editor of The A.V. Club. He said, "Onion, Inc. and I have come to a mutual parting of the ways."[14][15][16]

On 2 April 2013, long-time film editor and critic Scott Tobias stepped down as film editor of The A.V. Club. He said via Twitter, "After 15 great years @theavclub, I step down as Film Editor next Friday."[17]

On 26 April 2013, long-time writers Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson, and Genevieve Koski announced they would also be leaving the website to begin work on a new project with Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps.[18] Koski also said that she would continue to write freelance articles.[19] Writer Noel Murray announced he would be joining their new project, but would also continue to contribute to The A.V. Club in a reduced capacity.[18] On 30 May 2013, those six writers were announced as becoming part of the senior staff of The Dissolve, a film website run by Pitchfork Media.[20]

In April and June 2014, senior staff writers Kyle Ryan, Sonia Saraiya, and Emily St. James[21] left the website for positions at Entertainment Weekly, Salon, and Vox Media, respectively.[22][23] In 2015, Ryan returned to Onion, Inc. for a position in development.[24] Following his departure from The Dissolve earlier that month, Nathan Rabin returned to write freelance for the A.V. Club website in May 2015.[25] He renewed his regular column "My World of Flops" 6 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine. The Dissolve folded in July 2015.[26]

Television series

On 16 February 2017, The A.V. Club's editor-at-large, John Teti, posted an article on the website announcing the upcoming release of a television series, titled The A.V. Club, based on the website.[27] The series, hosted by Teti, began airing on Fusion on 16 March 2017 and ran for one season.[28] The series featured news, criticism, and discussions about various popular-culture topics and featured staff members from the website.

Move to Univision, then G/O Media

In January 2016, Univision Communications acquired "a 40 percent, controlling stake" in Onion Inc., the parent company of The A.V. Club.[29] Later that year, Univision also purchased Gawker Media and reorganized several of Gawker's sites into the new Gizmodo Media Group, a division of Fusion Media Group.[30]

The site was subsequently migrated from Bulbs, an internal content management system developed by Onion Inc. to the Gawker-developed Kinja platform.[31][32] It deleted the comment section and audience reviews hosted on the previous site. In July 2018, Univision announced it was looking for a buyer for the entire Gizmodo Group.[33]

In April 2019, Gizmodo and The Onion were sold to private-equity firm Great Hill Partners, which combined them into a new company named G/O Media.[34] In July 2019, executive editor Laura M. Browning and managing editor Caitlin PenzeyMoog left.[35] In early 2020, former People magazine and Entertainment Weekly editor Patrick Gomez was named editor-in-chief, and it was announced that the site was opening a Los Angeles bureau.[36] In August 2021, Yahoo! Entertainment and E! Online alum Scott Robson joined to lead the team.[37]

Onion Inc. Union

In March 2018 the employees of the company announced they had unionized with the Writers Guild Of America, East.[38] The union comprises "all of the creative staffs at Onion Inc.: The A.V. Club, The Onion, ClickHole, The Takeout, Onion Labs, and Onion Inc.'s video and art departments."[39] (ClickHole was subsequently acquired by Cards Against Humanity in February 2020.[40]) The union was recognized on 20 April 2018[41] and reached a contract agreement with management on 20 December 2018.[41] The contract includes "annual pay increases, minimum pay grades, strong diversity and anti-harassment language, just cause, union security, editorial independence, intellectual property rights, and an end to permalancers."[42]

2022 closure of Chicago office and staff departures

On 18 January 2022, the union representing staff at the website announced that all seven staff members based in Chicago had taken severance as opposed to accepting a mandatory move of work location to Los Angeles.[43] This predominantly affected the senior staff of the site and comprised the managing editor, film editor, TV editor, associate editor, senior writer, assistant editor, and editorial coordinator.[44]

Controversy

On 9 December 2010, the website ComicsComicsMag revealed a capsule review for the book Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth had been fabricated. The book had not yet been published nor even completed by the authors.[45] After the review was removed, editor Keith Phipps posted an apology on the website, stating that the reporter assigned the review could not locate a copy of the book ("for obvious reasons"), so fabricated it.[46] Leonard Pierce, the author of the review, was terminated from his freelance role with the website.[47]

Books

  • Thompson, Stephen; A.V. Club Staff (10 December 2002). The Tenacity of the Cockroach: Conversations With Entertainment's Most Enduring Outsiders. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0609809914.
  • A.V. Club Staff (13 October 2009). Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists. Scribner. ISBN 978-1416594734.
  • Rabin, Nathan (19 October 2010). My Year of Flops: The A.V. Presents One Man's Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1439153123.
  • Handlen, Zack; Emily St. James (16 October 2018). Monsters Of The Week: The Complete Critical Companion To The X-Files. New York: Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1419732478.

Awards

In 2017, The A.V. Club won an Eisner Award for "Best Comics-related Periodical/Journalism" (for works published in 2016).[48] The award went to writers Oliver Sava, Caitlin Rosberg, Shea Hennum, and Tegan O'Neil. The award also went to editor Caitlin PenzeyMoog.[49]

A.V. Club year- and decade-end lists

Starting in 1999, only lists written by individual writers were published. Beginning in 2006, The A.V. Club began publishing website-consensus, year-end album and film rankings, together with lists created by individual writers. Additionally decade-end lists were published for the 2000s and 2010s.[50][51]

Annual rankings for television began in 2010.

Album of the Year

Year Artist Album Nation Source
2006 The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America   United States [52]
2007 Arcade Fire Neon Bible   Canada [53]
2008 TV on the Radio Dear Science   United States [54]
2009 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix   France [55]
2010 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy   United States [56]
2011 Wye Oak Civilian   United States [57]
2012 Frank Ocean Channel Orange   United States [58]
2013 Kanye West Yeezus   United States [59]
2014 Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness   United States [60]
2015 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly   United States [61]
2016 David Bowie Blackstar   United Kingdom [62]
2017 Kendrick Lamar DAMN.   United States [63]
2018 Beach House 7   United States [64]
2019 FKA Twigs Magdalene   United Kingdom [65]
2020 Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters   United States [66]
2021 Japanese Breakfast Jubilee   United States [67]
2022 Beyoncé Renaissance   United States [68]

Film of the Year

Year Director Film Nation Source
2006 Alfonso Cuarón Children of Men   United States
  United Kingdom
  Mexico		 [69]
2007 Joel and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men   United States [70]
2008 Andrew Stanton WALL-E   United States [71]
2009 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker   United States
  Canada
  France		 [72]
2010 Debra Granik Winter's Bone   United States [73]
2011 Terrence Malick The Tree of Life   United States [74]
2012 Paul Thomas Anderson The Master   United States [75]
2013 Richard Linklater Before Midnight   United States [76]
2014 Richard Linklater Boyhood   United States [77]
2015 George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road   Australia
  United States		 [78]
2016 Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea   United States [79]
2017 Sean Baker The Florida Project   United States [80]
2018 Lee Chang-dong Burning   South Korea [81]
2019 Martin Scorsese The Irishman   United States [82]
2020 Kelly Reichardt First Cow   United States [83]
2021 Wes Anderson The French Dispatch   United States [84]
2022 Todd Field Tár   United States [85]

Television Show of the Year

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External links

  • Official website  

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The A V Club is an American online newspaper 2 and entertainment website featuring reviews interviews and other articles that examine films music television books games and other elements of pop culture media The A V Club was created in 1993 as a supplement to its satirical parent publication The Onion While it was a part of The Onion s 1996 website launch The A V Club had minimal presence on the website at that point The A V ClubTypePopular culture entertainment news reviews politics progressiveFormatInternetOwner s G O MediaEditor in chiefScott Robson 1 Founded1993 30 years ago 1993 LanguageEnglishHeadquartersChicago Illinois U S Websiteavclub wbr comA 2005 website redesign placed The A V Club in a more prominent position allowing its online identity to grow Unlike The Onion The A V Club and other sites owned by G O Media are not satirical 3 The publication s name is a reference to audiovisual AV clubs typical of American high schools 4 Contents 1 History 1 1 2012 2014 staff departures 1 2 Television series 1 3 Move to Univision then G O Media 1 4 Onion Inc Union 1 5 2022 closure of Chicago office and staff departures 2 Controversy 3 Books 4 Awards 5 A V Club year and decade end lists 5 1 Album of the Year 5 2 Film of the Year 5 3 Television Show of the Year 6 References 7 External linksHistory EditIn 1993 five years after the founding of The Onion Stephen Thompson a student at the University of Wisconsin Madison launched an entertainment section of the newspaper citation needed In 1996 both The Onion and The A V Club debuted on the Internet 5 The A V Club was originally a subsection 6 of the main theonion com domain name citation needed The supplement was moved to its own domain name theavclub com 7 before the 2005 acquisition of the shorter avclub com domain name 8 The latter change coincided with a redesign that incorporated reader comments and blog content In 2006 the website shifted its content model again to add content on a daily rather than weekly basis Some contributors have become established as freelance writers and editors citation needed In December 2004 Stephen Thompson left his position as founding editor of The A V Club 9 According to Sean Mills then president of The Onion the A V Club website first reached more than 1 million unique visitors in October 2007 10 In late 2009 the website was reported to have received more than 1 4 million unique visitors and 75 000 comments per month 11 At its peak the print version of The A V Club was available in 17 different cities 12 Localized sections of the website were also maintained with reviews and news relevant to specific cities The print version and localized websites were gradually discontinued and in December 2013 print publication ceased production in the last three markets 13 2012 2014 staff departures Edit On 13 December 2012 long time writer and editor Keith Phipps who oversaw the website after Stephen Thompson left stepped down from his role as editor of The A V Club He said Onion Inc and I have come to a mutual parting of the ways 14 15 16 On 2 April 2013 long time film editor and critic Scott Tobias stepped down as film editor of The A V Club He said via Twitter After 15 great years theavclub I step down as Film Editor next Friday 17 On 26 April 2013 long time writers Nathan Rabin Tasha Robinson and Genevieve Koski announced they would also be leaving the website to begin work on a new project with Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps 18 Koski also said that she would continue to write freelance articles 19 Writer Noel Murray announced he would be joining their new project but would also continue to contribute to The A V Club in a reduced capacity 18 On 30 May 2013 those six writers were announced as becoming part of the senior staff of The Dissolve a film website run by Pitchfork Media 20 In April and June 2014 senior staff writers Kyle Ryan Sonia Saraiya and Emily St James 21 left the website for positions at Entertainment Weekly Salon and Vox Media respectively 22 23 In 2015 Ryan returned to Onion Inc for a position in development 24 Following his departure from The Dissolve earlier that month Nathan Rabin returned to write freelance for the A V Club website in May 2015 25 He renewed his regular column My World of Flops Archived 6 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine The Dissolve folded in July 2015 26 Television series Edit On 16 February 2017 The A V Club s editor at large John Teti posted an article on the website announcing the upcoming release of a television series titled The A V Club based on the website 27 The series hosted by Teti began airing on Fusion on 16 March 2017 and ran for one season 28 The series featured news criticism and discussions about various popular culture topics and featured staff members from the website Move to Univision then G O Media Edit In January 2016 Univision Communications acquired a 40 percent controlling stake in Onion Inc the parent company of The A V Club 29 Later that year Univision also purchased Gawker Media and reorganized several of Gawker s sites into the new Gizmodo Media Group a division of Fusion Media Group 30 The site was subsequently migrated from Bulbs an internal content management system developed by Onion Inc to the Gawker developed Kinja platform 31 32 It deleted the comment section and audience reviews hosted on the previous site In July 2018 Univision announced it was looking for a buyer for the entire Gizmodo Group 33 In April 2019 Gizmodo and The Onion were sold to private equity firm Great Hill Partners which combined them into a new company named G O Media 34 In July 2019 executive editor Laura M Browning and managing editor Caitlin PenzeyMoog left 35 In early 2020 former People magazine and Entertainment Weekly editor Patrick Gomez was named editor in chief and it was announced that the site was opening a Los Angeles bureau 36 In August 2021 Yahoo Entertainment and E Online alum Scott Robson joined to lead the team 37 Onion Inc Union Edit In March 2018 the employees of the company announced they had unionized with the Writers Guild Of America East 38 The union comprises all of the creative staffs at Onion Inc The A V Club The Onion ClickHole The Takeout Onion Labs and Onion Inc s video and art departments 39 ClickHole was subsequently acquired by Cards Against Humanity in February 2020 40 The union was recognized on 20 April 2018 41 and reached a contract agreement with management on 20 December 2018 41 The contract includes annual pay increases minimum pay grades strong diversity and anti harassment language just cause union security editorial independence intellectual property rights and an end to permalancers 42 2022 closure of Chicago office and staff departures Edit On 18 January 2022 the union representing staff at the website announced that all seven staff members based in Chicago had taken severance as opposed to accepting a mandatory move of work location to Los Angeles 43 This predominantly affected the senior staff of the site and comprised the managing editor film editor TV editor associate editor senior writer assistant editor and editorial coordinator 44 Controversy EditOn 9 December 2010 the website ComicsComicsMag revealed a capsule review for the book Genius Isolated The Life and Art of Alex Toth had been fabricated The book had not yet been published nor even completed by the authors 45 After the review was removed editor Keith Phipps posted an apology on the website stating that the reporter assigned the review could not locate a copy of the book for obvious reasons so fabricated it 46 Leonard Pierce the author of the review was terminated from his freelance role with the website 47 Books EditThompson Stephen A V Club Staff 10 December 2002 The Tenacity of the Cockroach Conversations With Entertainment s Most Enduring Outsiders Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 0609809914 A V Club Staff 13 October 2009 Inventory 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop Culture Lists Scribner ISBN 978 1416594734 Rabin Nathan 19 October 2010 My Year of Flops The A V Presents One Man s Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure New York Scribner ISBN 978 1439153123 Handlen Zack Emily St James 16 October 2018 Monsters Of The Week The Complete Critical Companion To The X Files New York Abrams Press ISBN 978 1419732478 Awards EditIn 2017 The A V Club won an Eisner Award for Best Comics related Periodical Journalism for works published in 2016 48 The award went to writers Oliver Sava Caitlin Rosberg Shea Hennum and Tegan O Neil The award also went to editor Caitlin PenzeyMoog 49 A V Club year and decade end lists EditStarting in 1999 only lists written by individual writers were published Beginning in 2006 The A V Club began publishing website consensus year end album and film rankings together with lists created by individual writers Additionally decade end lists were published for the 2000s and 2010s 50 51 Annual rankings for television began in 2010 Album of the Year Edit Year Artist Album Nation Source2006 The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America United States 52 2007 Arcade Fire Neon Bible Canada 53 2008 TV on the Radio Dear Science United States 54 2009 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix France 55 2010 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy United States 56 2011 Wye Oak Civilian United States 57 2012 Frank Ocean Channel Orange United States 58 2013 Kanye West Yeezus United States 59 2014 Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness United States 60 2015 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly United States 61 2016 David Bowie Blackstar United Kingdom 62 2017 Kendrick Lamar DAMN United States 63 2018 Beach House 7 United States 64 2019 FKA Twigs Magdalene United Kingdom 65 2020 Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters United States 66 2021 Japanese Breakfast Jubilee United States 67 2022 Beyonce Renaissance United States 68 Film of the Year Edit Year Director Film Nation Source2006 Alfonso Cuaron Children of Men United States United Kingdom Mexico 69 2007 Joel and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men United States 70 2008 Andrew Stanton WALL E United States 71 2009 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker United States Canada France 72 2010 Debra Granik Winter s Bone United States 73 2011 Terrence Malick The Tree of Life United States 74 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson The Master United States 75 2013 Richard Linklater Before Midnight United States 76 2014 Richard Linklater Boyhood United States 77 2015 George Miller Mad Max Fury Road Australia United States 78 2016 Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea United States 79 2017 Sean Baker The Florida Project United States 80 2018 Lee Chang dong Burning South Korea 81 2019 Martin Scorsese The Irishman United States 82 2020 Kelly Reichardt First Cow United States 83 2021 Wes Anderson The French Dispatch United States 84 2022 Todd Field Tar United States 85 Television Show of the Year Edit Year Show Network Nation Source2010 Breaking Bad AMC United States 86 2011 Louie FX United States 87 2012 Breaking Bad AMC United States 88 2013 Enlightened HBO United States 89 2014 Hannibal NBC United States 90 2015 Mad Men AMC United States 91 2016 The People v O J Simpson American Crime Story FX United States 92 2017 The Good Place NBC United States 93 2018 The Americans FX United States 94 2019 Fleabag Amazon Prime Video United Kingdom 95 2020 I May Destroy You HBO United Kingdom 96 2021 Succession HBO United States 97 2022 The Bear Hulu United States 98 References Edit MG O Media Announces New Editors In Chief Of AV Club Gizmodo Jezebel Cision 31 August 2021 Retrieved 14 September 2021 Castillo Jay 14 December 2017 This Photo Is The Perfect Example Of What Internet Will Look Like If Net Neutrality Loses Inquisitr Retrieved 30 August 2018 About Us The A V Club 1 January 1988 Retrieved 23 March 2017 About Us The A V Club 1 January 1988 Retrieved 12 November 2015 The Onion America s Finest News Source The Onion 19 December 1996 Archived from the original on 31 December 1996 Retrieved 23 March 2017 The ONION Number One in News 19 December 1996 Archived from the original on 19 December 1996 Retrieved 19 July 2018 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link The Onion s A V Club the Internet s Only Entertainment Guide 30 September 2001 Archived from the original on 27 November 1999 Retrieved 19 July 2018 Home The A V Club The A V Club 6 August 2005 Archived from the original on 6 August 2005 Retrieved 13 August 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Bio for Stephen Thompson Editor NPR Music NPR Retrieved 12 November 2015 David Shankbone 24 November 2007 An interview with America s Finest News Source Wikinews Johnson Steve 27 October 2009 Onion s A V Club is building up its brand Chicago Tribune Retrieved 14 March 2010 Gilmer Marcus 8 November 2013 The Onion bids adieu to print Chicago Sun Times Archived from the original on 19 April 2014 Retrieved 17 April 2014 Ryan Kyle 8 November 2013 The Onion amp A V Club ending print publication next month The A V Club Retrieved 17 April 2014 Goodybyes amp Hellos Untitled Keith Phipps Project 13 December 2012 Keith Phipps is no longer editor of The A V Club The A V Club 14 December 2012 Editor Keith Phipps Leaves The A V Club Criticwire 13 December 2012 Scott Tobias Leaves A V Club Site Looking For a New Film Editor Criticwire 2 April 2013 a b An Update from The A V Club The A V Club 26 April 2013 Genevieve Koski GenevieveKoski 26 April 2013 To clarify I ll still contribute as a freelancer whenever I can but I am no longer an editor So you can t blame me for mistakes anymore Tweet Archived from the original on 22 April 2017 Retrieved 13 December 2022 via Twitter Introducing The Dissolve A New Film Site Pitchfork 31 May 2013 Retrieved 30 May 2013 St James Emily 3 June 2019 On coming out as trans in Donald Trump s America Vox Archived from the original on 3 June 2019 Retrieved 24 June 2019 Adams Sam 9 June 2014 A V Club Exodus Continues as Todd VanDerWerff Becomes Vox s First Culture Editor Indiewire Retrieved 25 August 2015 Bazilian Emma 21 April 2014 Matt Bean staffs up at Entertainment Weekly Adweek Retrieved 25 August 2015 Ryan Kyle 16 March 2015 I know it might sound strange but I believe you ll be coming back before too long CMYKyle Kyle Ryan s Shameless Self Promotion Retrieved 25 August 2015 Rabin Nathan 25 August 2015 Nathan Rabin The A V Club The A V Club Retrieved 25 August 2015 Phipps Keith 8 July 2015 The End The Dissolve Retrieved 8 July 2015 Teti John 16 February 2017 The A V Club will soon exist in TV show form The A V Club Retrieved 23 March 2017 Hughes William 15 March 2017 The A V Club TV show debuts tomorrow night on Fusion The A V Club Retrieved 15 March 2017 Folkenflik David 19 January 2016 Area Satirical Publication The Onion Sold To Univision Seriously NPR Villafane Veronica 22 September 2016 Univision Rebrands Gawker Media As Gizmodo Media Group Starts Translating Content For Univision com Forbes Mullin Benjamin 16 June 2017 Kinja the publishing system at the heart of Gawker lives on under Univision Poynter Laura M Browning and Sean O Neal 23 August 2017 Welcome back to The A V Club The A V Club Hi we re the A V Club and we re for sale 10 July 2018 Hayes Dade 8 April 2019 Univision Finalizes Sale Of Former Gawker Portfolio And The Onion To Private Equity Firm Great Hill Partners Deadline Hollywood Retrieved 16 January 2020 Hays Kali 26 July 2019 The Media Carousel A roundup of who s been hired fired or maybe just jumped ship in media land recently Women s Wear Daily PMC Retrieved 6 May 2020 Patrick Gomez Named Editor in Chief The A V Club Reid To BDG Fashion Director mediapost com Retrieved 16 January 2020 Media G O G O Media Announces New Editors In Chief Of AV Club Gizmodo Jezebel www prnewswire com Retrieved 27 October 2021 Staff of 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