Film School Rejects is on the market.
After greater than 17 years of being owned and operated independently by a single proprietor — an individual who didn’t come from any generational wealth and has primarily run the positioning off of his bank cards for 20 years — this publication has reached some extent of unsustainability that has compelled its proprietor right into a state of great monetary duress. Now, the one path ahead is to discover a new proprietor who can revive it and take it into a brand new period.
In a time of unprecedented company consolidation, AI content material scraping, and engines like google devaluing human-generated content material, it has develop into more and more troublesome to stay unbiased, produce high-quality content material, and keep afloat within the movie criticism and leisure journalism areas.
Through the years, FSR has been a implausible launch pad for a few of the business’s most proficient voices. Lots of our writers have gone on to grace the pages of prestigious publications and make a big affect on the world of movie and tv criticism. It has additionally delighted and engaged readers with its dedication to being an unbiased oasis in a sea of company content material farms. We hope to discover a new proprietor who will maintain true to those beliefs and carry FSR’s mission ahead whereas permitting its present proprietor to get out from beneath the burden of his debt.
No matter comes subsequent, we’re eternally grateful to all the editors, writers, and readers who’ve handed via these digital halls over the almost 20 years that FSR has existed. With out you and your shared love of the various matters we’ve coated through the years, we might not have made it this far. We have now at all times strived to stay fiercely unbiased with our editorial voice, preserve our content material free and never paywalled, and supply a house for under-represented voices within the mainstream leisure dialog.
Whereas this is an extremely unhappy day in FSR’s historical past, it is not with out hope {that a} hero will emerge and see that its finest days are forward.
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