Changing On-Line Ad Landscape Ends Jen Contino’s Run At The Pulse

Rick Veitch has fully confirmed on the message boards hosted by the site he shares with Steve Conley, Comicon.com, that they've go let full-time reporter for that site's Pulse news organization, Jen Contino, after eight years. The issue had been raised on those same boards after a period of inactivity at the long-time independent news site, and had been addressed by Heidi MacDonald at her blog including initial confirmation by Veitch and Contino.

"Ever since the Great Recession hit, Internet advertising has taken a nosedive," explains Veitch in his posting. "And it cost real money to get real talent like Jen's." Veitch went on to explain that both Contino and Steve Conley had been unsuccessful in finding new advertising in the tough current market, and that one of the site's previous advertisers had stopped paying the site owing "a rather large amount of money." Veitch complimented Contino on eight years of service to the Pulse site and publicly recommended her to anyone that might be hiring.

In addition to the changes with the well-liked Contino and to the long-time Internet news source for which she worked, the story's also notable for being one of maybe a half-dozen industry moves to directly cite outside economic pressure since December 2008 and the first major one in a while. There were a flurry of personnel moves at Diamond, DC, Dark Horse and Viz between January and April of 2009 that directly cited the current recession as a partial or outright cause, but not many if any outside of already-plagued enterprises (newspapers, alt-weeklies) since then.
 
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