{"id":260912,"date":"2026-09-01T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/madden-menaces-gut-music-media-hayley-williams-advocates-for-laid-off-writers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:04:23","slug":"madden-menaces-gut-music-media-hayley-williams-advocates-for-laid-off-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/madden-menaces-gut-music-media-hayley-williams-advocates-for-laid-off-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden Menaces Gut Music Media; Hayley Williams Advocates for Laid-off Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>ICYMI<\/b>: Good Charlotte&#8217;s Mr. Cameron Diaz and Mr. Nicole Richie founded a company called Veeps. It marketed itself as a platform for artists to manage their VIP meet &amp; greets, as well as ticketing and other touring concerns.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2021, Live Nation bought a majority stake in Veeps for an unknown sum.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The one who publicly dated a 16-year-old Hilary Duff when he was 25 is its CEO.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Veeps now has a monopoly on music journalism, with the company owning: Alternative Press, BrooklynVegan, Revolver, and Goldmine.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On August 12th, these classic publications were decimated by layoffs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hayley Williams took to her Substack to encourage her readers to support journalists and the few publications not under Veeps&#8217; black nail-polished thumb.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melodicmag.com\/news\/music-publications-gutted-by-veeps-and-hit-with-massive-layoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.melodicmag.com\/news\/music-publications-gutted-by-veeps-and-hit-with-massive-layoffs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@bandteesmcgee\/note\/c-327434835?utm_source=notes-share-action\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/substack.com\/@bandteesmcgee\/note\/c-327434835?utm_source=notes-share-action<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132805609.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICYMI: Good Charlotte&#8217;s Mr. Cameron Diaz and Mr. Nicole Richie founded a company called Veeps. It marketed itself as a platform for artists to manage their VIP meet &amp; greets, as well as ticketing and other touring concerns. In 2021, Live Nation bought a majority stake in Veeps for an unknown sum. The one who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-260912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}