{
  "id": 18393236,
  "title": "Online Media Pioneer Salon To Shutter: “Our Publishing Model Is No Longer Sustainable”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/online-media-pioneer-salon-to-shutter-our-publishing-model-is-no",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-05T23:04:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/11/online-media-pioneer-salon-shutting-down-1237214965/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Salon, one of the internet’s earliest publications, is shutting down nearly 31 years after its launch. The site announced Thursday in a farewell post that it would go dark later today. 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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}