DCist Resurrected After Radio Stations Rescue Gothamist: Report

WASHINGTON, DC -- A group of public radio stations has banded together to snap up Gothamist, meaning that DCist will be coming back after being shut down in the fall.

WTOP reports that WAMU in Washington was one of the radio stations that came to Gothamist's rescue, along with WNYC in New York and KPCC in Southern California. Two anonymous donors are responsible for the acquisition, the broadcasters said according to the report.

Gothamist, along with DCist and LAist, suddenly shut down last fall after workers voted to unionize. The sites' owner, DNAinfo, claimed they weren't worth keeping open.

Whoever is running the DCist Twitter account was certainly pretty happy about the news.

We’re coming back, baby! https://t.co/ZZE28LaQEm pic.twitter.com/od4HS5OyRs
— DCist (@DCist) February 23, 2018

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 06: Letitia 'Tish' James, Public Advocate for the City of New York, speaks to dozens of writers, journalists, labor activists and DNAinfo and Gothamist employees during an afternoon rally at City Hall Park hosted by the Writers Guild of America to support the journalists and other staff members who lost their jobs at the publications after they voted to form a union on November 6, 2017 in New York City. Last Thursday, local New York news websites Gothamist and DNAinfo were abruptly shut down by their billionaire owner Joe Ricketts just a week after company employees successfully unionized. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)