Growing up

WORK • Modern Media

Last week’s Eater layoffs — reportedly 15 people, approximately one-third of the brand’s union jobs, mostly at the city site level — are yet another reminder: media is hard and local media is harder. We knew it when we sold Eater (and Curbed and Racked) to Vox Media in 2013. But we were doing it, piece by piece, market by market.