Josh Fruhlingerit's kind of interesting that this article talks about the history of KPCC but doesn't get into the history of the "-ist" sites, which is the story of new media in a nutshell https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-01-31/kpcc-is-changing-its-name-to-laist-89-3
"gothamist" was started as a hip NY blog in the early '00s, expanded to a "blog network" multiple other cities all with the "-ist" label over the next decade, never made much money, then got bought by a finance guy who tried to shut them all down when the staff unionized in '17
then sort of miraculously the bigger blogs got spun off, each to a local public radio station, in a transaction i don't fully understand (i've always wondered if selling/"spinning them off" to nonprofits made the handover tax deductible for said finance guy)
so now there are 4(?) local "ist" sites that are no longer affiliated with one another in any way and have very different look and feels (they used to be all on one publishing platform). sort of like how in baltimore there are 3-4 local groceries named "eddie's" owned by diff ppl