Splinter. Maidment did not immediately respond. News and opinion website Splinter is getting shut down six months after G/O Media acquired the assets of the former Gizmodo Media Group. Political news site Splinter is shutting down two years after its launch.Paul Maidment, the editorial director of G/O Media, praised Splinter's journalism Latest Congress Elections Features White House Trump Administration The Future of Labor. There are plenty of other fake news sites out there like The Onion that are actually funny. The A.V. Splinter, a news and commentary website that filled the void left by the demise of Gawker, is shutting down, editor in chief Aleksander Chan announced Thursday on Twitter. In Club; Deadspin; Gizmodo; Jalopnik; Jezebel; Kotaku; Lifehacker; The Root; The Takeout; The Onion; The Inventory; The Truth Hurts. Please enter a valid email address.Network error, please try again. They were always unabashedly partisan but lately (circa a few months to half a year) they seem to be trying to crowbar totally nonpartisan issues into their political mold or writing clickbait headlines that outright misstate an issue to make it baldly partisan or just are grossly misleading. Political news site Splinter is shutting down two years after its launch. The left-leaning online news outlet Splinter has been shut down, with multiple staffers saying they’ve been fired. Splinter's parent company G/O Media warned editors and reporters at its other properties not to write about the site's closure on Thursday, per a new report. Subscribe to our newsletter! HuffPost asked Maidment via email if he thought Splinter staffers might like to see journalists at G/O Media report this bit of news, even if it is unpleasant and happens to be about them. Splinter, the political news site owned by G/O Media, announced Thursday that it was shutting down two years after its launch in 2017. A Requiem for Splinter News. Politics. Splinter began as the article part of the Fusion TV website in 2013. Email Address. Shop Subscribe. Now you can get the top stories from Splinter delivered to your inbox. News outlets like CNN and ABC News might have the biggest audiences, but the most trusted news outlets in America are actually British, according to a 2014 study from Pew Research Center. Context: After G/O Media shut down Splinter News, Warren tweeted: "Private equity firms are sucking value out of our companies, putting people out of work, and wiping out newspapers and digital news outlets like @Splinter_News. These were “sensationalist, clickbaity and often quite trashy,” but “were at least true,” he said. By Lucas Hubbard | October 15, ... just like subscribing to and reading every story in the Washington Post, was a hopeless endeavor. 1.6M likes. The decision was made to separate the Fusion TV channel from its news and editorial site. The website Splinter, G/O Media’s leftist news and opinion blog, shuttered on Thursday. Splinter | Politics, News, Media, and Opinion. Paul Maidment, executive editor of G/O Media, informed compa… If you happen to get splinters in your feet, act quickly to clean the affected area and remove the splinter before it becomes more painful or even gets infected. The Truth Hurts. Splinter was introduced in 2017 as a rebranding of the news site Fusion, which was owned by Univision’s Fusion Media Group. News and opinions that get under your skin. Such stories are the inevitable outcome of sites like ViralNova, Charles said. News and opinion website Splinter is getting shut down six months after G/O Media acquired the assets of the former Gizmodo Media Group. Paul Maidment, executive editor of G/O Media, informed compa…