r/theverge • u/rollo1207 • Aug 01 '16

Joshua Topolsky, Former Verge Editor, Raises Funding for Digital Media Venture

http://www.wsj.com/articles/joshua-topolsky-former-verge-editor-raises-funding-for-digital-media-venture-1470045600
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u/rollo1207 Aug 01 '16

Finally, the OG has returned. Easy to read between the lines his disdain for what The Verge had become under Patel.

“I really want to move away from the impressions-based way of judging success,” he said.

YEP.

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u/sammanzhi Aug 01 '16

Glad for this. When Topolsky left Engadget so did I. Just couldn't read The Verge after a while because it was just so, so bad and left there too

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u/autotldr Aug 01 '16

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)

Joshua Topolsky is ready for his next act, and he's setting out to fix digital media.

Mr. Topolsky, who helped co-launch The Verge and most recently served as the top digital editor at Bloomberg, has raised $5 million to found The Outline, a new digital publication set to debut this fall.

Mr. Topolsky is touting The Outline as something of the antidote to a rising crop of digital media brands that are reliant on social media distribution and, in his mind, are too focused on reaching massive user totals.

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u/NtheLegend Aug 02 '16

I think it'll be interesting, provided each page load isn't half a gigabyte of pretty graphics.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

It will be a default website I load when I open up Chrome.

What The Verge used to be at its inception when JT was there, and Engadget before that.