# NYP Shuts Down PageSix Standalone Site After Less Than Four Months - Host: [gigaom.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/gigaom.com/) - Saved: March 20, 2008 (2008-03-20T22:27:41Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a737431d9bd4/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a737431d9bd4.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) PageSix.com, the entertainment gossip site that gained independence from its original home as part of the NYP.com in December, has been shuttered, Gawker reported. A rep for the News Corp.-owned tabloid told Gawker that it decided to pull the plug on the standalone PageSix.com due to the tanking economy. Apparently, the site had difficulty getting a toe hold in a market already saturated with established gossip sites, like TMZ and PerezHilton. The PageSix site is now redirecting back to the main NYP.com page. As a result of the closing, a mix of 18 editorial and other staffers have been laid off, while three PageSix employees have been given other assignments at NYP. Related Another (Re)Entrant In The Gossip Ring: PageSix.com Bids For Attention ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Dow Jones Makes First Post-News Corp Acquisition: Buys Betten Financial News](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/58f6499e375d/) (gigaom.com, March 10, 2008) - [Fox Business Loses Domain Name Battle Due To Laziness](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f7014ea32c2f/) (gigaom.com, March 10, 2008) - [Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a041298fe0e3/) (gigaom.com, March 21, 2008) - [Are We Entering the Post-Reader Era?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2b2c0cafc209/) (gigaom.com, March 24, 2008) - [WSJ Staff To Move Into News Corp HQs?; Online Model Set For Now](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0bab294e1b30/) (gigaom.com, March 27, 2008) ## Saved the same week - [Sequoias Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/825bf72edff2/) (techcrunch.com, March 20, 2008) - [Information Arbitrage: The Bear Necessities](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6205a043ff88/) (informationarbitrage.com, March 20, 2008) - [LinkedIn, Now For Companies](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f94882c53885/) (techcrunch.com, March 21, 2008) - [Rifling Obama's passport file](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b48395138471/) (dailykos.com, March 21, 2008) - [VC admits he hates boring PowerPoints](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/85a88601ae9e/) (scobleizer.com, March 21, 2008) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/419-nyp-shuts-down-pagesix-standalone-site-after-less-than-four-months/