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The billionaire owner of hyperlocal news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist shut them down Thursday — just a week after staffers voted to join a union. 
  
 Joe Ricketts, a supporter of President Trump who made billions as the founder of TD Ameritrade, yanked the sites at 5 p.m., and sent an email to employees to let them know they lost their jobs. 
  
 “I’ve made the difficult decision to begin the orderly wind down of the DNAinfo/Gothamist business,” Ricketts wrote. 
  
 “Reaching this decision wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t one I made lightly,” he said in the email, most of which was posted online to replace the now-defunct sites. 
  
 DNAinfo management hints site might shut down if staff unionizes 
  
 Ricketts said he pulled the plug because the DNA brand — which was melded with Gothamist sites earlier this year — failed to turn a profit. 
  
 “Businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure. And while we made important progress toward building DNAinfo into a successful business, in the end, that progress hasn’t been sufficient to support the tremendous effort and expense needed to produce the type of journalism on which the company was founded,” Ricketts wrote. 
  
 He closed down the entire company, although only 27 employees in New York voted on Oct. 27 to join the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE). 
  
 A letter written by CEO Joe Ricketts announcing that DNAinfo and Gothamist will fold on Nov. 2, 2017. (DNAinfo) 
  
 The decision left 115 people without jobs in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and New York. 
  
 De Blasio joins pols in backing DNAinfo, Gothamist unionization 
  
 The shuttering of the sites appeared to have also wiped out all of their archived stories. But a DNAinfo spokesperson said they would be preserved. 
  
 WGAE was alerted to the shutdown at the same time as employees, a spokeswoman said. 
  
 She said that it was a financially motivated decision, noting that DNA lost money every year since its 2009 launch. 
  
 But Ricketts, an outspoken opponent of unions, had signaled he might bail on the business if WGAE’s vote was successful. 
  
 DNAinfo, Gothamist vote to unionize despite management threat 
  
 “(We) will be looking at all of our potential areas of recourse and we will aggressively pursue our new members rights,” WGAE said in a statement. 
  
 The staff at all the sites were blindsided, sources said. 
  
 Staffers will get full pay and benefits until Feb. 2, the company said in its email. 
  
 Reporters and editors at the New York sites gathered at a Lower East Side bar Thursday night to toast their coverage of the city. 
  
 “I’m very appreciative of the readers that read us because that’s what it was about,” said DNAinfo reporter Katie Honan. 
  
 Reporter Ben Fractenberg said the closure of the sites dealt a major blow to local journalism. 
  
 “There’s a gap in local news and people want to know what’s going on in their neighborhood and we were helping to do that,” he said. 
  
 With Andy Mai ||||| Mr. Ricketts wrote that he founded DNAinfo in 2009 “because I believe people care deeply about the things that happen where they live and work,” and he thought he could build “a large and loyal audience that advertisers would want to reach.” DNAinfo and Gothamist, which Mr. Ricketts bought in the spring, attracted more than 9 million readers a month, in New York and other cities where they operate satellite sites, DNAinfo said. 
  
 But in the financially daunting era of digital journalism, there has been no tougher nut to crack than making local news profitable, a lesson Mr. Ricketts, who lost money every month of DNAinfo’s existence, is just the latest to learn. In New York City, the nation’s biggest media market, established organizations such as The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily News have slashed staff or withdrawn from street-level reporting. The Voice stopped publishing its print edition in September. 
  
 For DNAinfo and Gothamist, the staff’s vote to join the Writers Guild of America East was just part of the decision to close the company. A spokeswoman for DNAinfo said in a statement, “The decision by the editorial team to unionize is simply another competitive obstacle making it harder for the business to be financially successful.” 
  
 The decision puts 115 people out of work, both at the New York operations that unionized and at those in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington that did not. They are getting three months of paid “administrative leave” at full salary, plus four weeks of severance, DNAinfo said. 
  
 The news took the newsroom by surprise. David Colon, a reporter for Gothamist, said that a lawyer for DNAinfo was present when the staff was told, but that he “didn’t really” take questions. ||||| In a statement issued Thursday night, the Writers Guild said it was working to support the staff at DNAinfo and Gothamist. "The New York offices of DNAinfo and Gothamist recently voted to unionize and it is no secret that threats were made to these workers during the organizing drive," the statement said. "The Guild will be looking at all of our potential areas of recourse and we will aggressively pursue our new members rights." |||||
One week after 27 New York employees of local news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist voted to unionize, they were out of a job, the New York Daily News reports. But they weren't alone. The 89 employees at DNAinfo and Gothamist-affiliated sites in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, also found themselves suddenly out of work Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times. "I yelled a lot and somebody told me to stop," Gothamist reporter David Colon tells the New York Times. "Now we're all trying to figure out what to do." Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of Ameritrade TD who started DNAinfo in 2009 and acquired Gothamist in March, said in a statement posted online that "progress toward building DNAinfo into a successful business ... hasn't been sufficient." A spokesperson for DNAinfo says the unionization of employees was "simply another competitive obstacle making it harder for the business to be financially successful." Employees had voted to unionize for better pay. After the vote, DNAinfo reporter Katie Honan said journalism "should be a career for people, not a postcollege hobby." But Ricketts, a Trump donor, has expressed anti-union views in the past, saying in September that a union "destroys the esprit de corps businesses need to succeed." A DNAinfo executive also warned employees that unionization could cause the sites to close. "I'm very adamant that the union didn't kill DNAinfo and Gothamist, Joe Ricketts made the decision to kill Gothamist and DNAinfo," Gothamist reporter Scott Heins says. All stories on the closed sites disappeared Thursday, but a DNAinfo official says they will be archived.