Junkee Media offloads LGBTI community hub SameSame to Evo Media for undisclosed sum
Junkee Media has sold its LGBTI community hub SameSame.com.au to gay and lesbian publisher Evo Media for an undisclosed amount, Mumbrella can reveal.
Tim Duggan, Junkee Media co-founder, told Mumbrella the sale was a result of the process of bringing all the company’s titles onto the Junkee master domain following the companies rebrand from the Sound Alliance to Junkee Media in July.
“Junkee Media has been through a rapid phase of growth recently and we are in the process of bringing all of our titles onto the Junkee master domain,” he said.
“As part of this review we decided that Same Same didn’t strictly fit into our future strategic vision, and we genuinely thought that it would be able to grow to the next level under a dedicated and leading GLBT publisher like Evo Media.”
Great news – hopefully new owners will reevaluate what has basically become a toothless aggregator & revise policies around paying contributors & dismantle the current editor’s biases.