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Online Media Pioneer Salon To Shutter: “Our Publishing Model Is No Longer Sustainable”

Salon, one of the internet’s earliest publications, is shutting down nearly 31 years after its launch.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 5, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC

The site announced Thursday in a farewell post that it would go dark later Thursday.

Salon was founded in the wake of a strike at the San Francisco Examiner when one of the newspaper’s editors, David Talbot, started exploring […].

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