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Goodbye from Salon

What HN thinks

A wake for an early-web magazine where half the mourners remember it had died years ago.

Journalism's business model collapsed long ago
Commenters trace the decline to lost classifieds (Craigslist), consolidation and private equity well before social media or AI, with local beat reporting hit hardest.
Salon was opinion, now commoditized
Salon never had a real newsroom; its thinkpieces were undercut by Substack, newsletters and podcasts, and it lingered as an SEO zombie brand.
Nostalgia for early Salon
Many fondly recall its 1990s writers, forums, personals and peers like Suck.com and Slate, while lamenting its later turn.

Consensus: Most agree Salon's best days were long past and that the real loss is original and local reporting, which punditry platforms haven't replaced.

Recommended in the comments

Flat Earth News (book): It documented exactly the hollowing-out of newsrooms discussed in the thread.
The Victorian Internet ↗ (book): Shows the telegraph killing local newspapers long before the internet did.
Bricolage ↗ (tool): Praised as ahead of its time for staging and editorial workflows.
Seattle Times (product): Offered as an example of local independent news worth subscribing to.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 7 days ago.

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Comments: 235
Best rank: #6
Posted: 2026-11-05 by mkeeter
Category: Culture & society

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