Top editorial staff leaving A.V. Club entertainment site after refusing to relocate from Chicago to new offices in LA
Top editorial staff at the Chicago-based A.V. Club, a sister publication to The Onion, are exiting the entertainment website en masse after refusing a mandatory relocation to new offices in Los Angeles.
The seven employees, including the managing editor, TV editor and film editor, all gave the West Coast move the thumbs-down by a Jan. 15 deadline imposed by the A.V. Club’s owner, New York-based G/O Media.
“It really was a decision based on our commitment to Chicago and to the Midwestern roots of the A.V. Club, and
