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Paste cut its film and TV teams on Monday in an restructuring that will see the site publishing only music coverage, TheWrap has learned.<\/p>\n
The news company\u2019s President and Editor-in-Chief Josh Jackson confirmed the news in a statement to TheWrap, explaining that Paste\u2019s TV and movies coverage will live on via Paste Media sister site The A.V. Club, which it acquired in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll still have TV and movies coverage on Paste, it will just be led by our TV and movies teams at The A.V. Club. But the heart of Paste has always been music, and we want to be the premiere music site on the internet,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cWe believe our music coverage has never been better than under Matt Mitchell\u2019s leadership, and that\u2019s where the Paste team\u2019s focus will be moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n Employees laid off in the site\u2019s shake-up Monday included movies editor Jim Vorel and associate movies editor Jesse Hassenger, as well as TV and books editor Lacy Baugher Milas, who first shared the news on X.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n \u201cToday, @PasteMagazine<\/a> shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about,\u201d Milas wrote in a tweet re-shared by Hassenger.<\/p>\n Many Paste contributors also lamented the news on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cI wrote so many things there that I still love to death and it\u2019s awful to see things end this way,\u201d Kathryn Porter, a former intern-turned-contributor to the site, said<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the first outlets that shepherded me when starting to freelance in 2022,\u201d Rendy Jones said<\/a>. \u201cSuch an incredible team of writers and editors. Hire Lacy. Hire everyone affected.\u201d<\/p>\n Founded in 1998 and led by Jackson since 2002, the Atlanta-based entertainment news site and former glossy magazine has garnered a dedicated readership for its incisive writing on music, movies, TV, games, books, comics and more. It has seen a number of iterations over the years, including cutting its print edition in 2010<\/a>, a move that laid off nearly all of its full-time staff.<\/p>\n Paste Media, meanwhile, has seen a number of acquisitions of other news sites in recent years. In addition to The A.V. Club in March 2024, the company relaunched Splinter News that same month and in November 2023 acquired Jezebel<\/a> from G\/O Media in an all-cash deal.<\/p>\n In July of this year, Paste spun off its gaming coverage into Endless Mode<\/a>, a new site dedicated exclusively to gaming and anime coverage. Garrett Martin, the longtime editor of Paste\u2019s gaming section, said at the time that launching the site was a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I couldn\u2019t pass up.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Paste Cuts Film, TV Teams to Recenter on Only Music Coverage<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paste cut its film and TV teams on Monday in an restructuring that will see the site publishing only music coverage, TheWrap has learned. 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