Feminist website Jezebel will be relaunched by Paste Magazine less than a month after shutting down

By ALEXANDRA OLSON
AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down. Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed Jezebel and laid off its staff earlier this month. G/0 Media shut down Jezebel after trying unsuccessfully for months to find a buyer for the 16-year-old site. Paste Founder and Editor-in-Chief Josh Jackson said via email that Paste became interested in buying Jezebel the day after it shut down and moved quickly to secure the all-cash deal. He said the site will start publishing again as early as this week. He said Paste is searching for a new editor-in-chief and talking to other job candidates, prioritizing Jezebel’s former staffers.