Refinery29 Looks to Media Entertainment For Growth in Yet Another Shift

Refinery29 has charted many courses over its lifetime. It started out back in 2005 as an e-commerce and fashion/beauty content destination, then it shifted to a hard news model. Now the company is transforming itself again this time into a media entertainment business. But with transformations comes layoffs. Hopefully the company will stick with this model for a while.

As a result, there has been a handful of layoffs plus some new hires. They include the addition of senior features writer Ashley Ford; Judith Ohikuare, who will develop Work & Money stories; managing editor Jessica Blankenship; beauty reporter Khalea Underwood, and Sophie Saint Thomas, a sex writer.

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