News & Politics Former DCist Journalists’ Planned News Site Has Already Raised Half Its Initial Funding Before its fall launch, the 51st wants to establish a relationship with the people it will cover. DCist, Media, the 51st, WAMUJuly 17, 2024
News & Politics Why Did WAMU Close DCist? The star-crossed marriage of Washington's NPR member station and a feisty digital news publication came to an abrupt end in February. Staffers are still unclear about what the station's management wants now. DCist, Media, WAMUApril 19, 2024
News & Politics DCist Has Been Shut Down Again, This Time by WAMU WAMU plans to "shift away from digital publishing." 15 layoffs will accompany the closure. DCist, Media, WAMUFebruary 23, 2024
News & Politics Let Us Now Mourn (or Maybe Not) DCist’s Comments Section The longtime online community vanished last week. If you don't know why that matters, you must be new here. Comments, DCist, MediaFebruary 7, 2022
News & Politics DC Businesses: It’s Perfectly Legal to Refuse to Host an Alt-Right Pool Party Adrienna DiCioccio, Alt-Right, DCist, Laura LoomerMay 15, 2019
News & Politics WAMU Buys DCist Two anonymous donors helped fund the purchase. DCist, Media, WAMUFebruary 23, 2018
News & Politics I Met My Website’s Commenters. And I Kind of…Like Them? A former DCist editor meets her toughest (and most persistent) critics. DCistNovember 28, 2017
News & Politics The Other Reason Billionaires Should Stay Out of Local News It's not just their whims we should worry about. DCist, Joe Ricketts, MediaNovember 19, 2017
News & Politics DCistNOW.com Will Change Its Name The owner of DCist objected. Aaron Myers, DCist, DCistNOW, MediaNovember 14, 2017
News & Politics The Death of DCist Wasn’t Just a Labor Decision. It Was a Digital Book Burning DCist, Gothamist, Joe Ricketts, MediaNovember 3, 2017
Let Us Now Mourn (or Maybe Not) DCist’s Comments Section