True Slant Has Been Officially Closed Down by Forbes

Just two months after acquiring True/Slant, Forbes has closed the new media site. There were a lot of initial rumours after the acquistion, but I didnt think it would be this quickly before this growing property was closed. It seems that Forbes wasnt really interested in the site itself, but either the platform or staffing.

The closure of True/Slant is still yet to be confirmed by Forbes, but all the True/Slant writers have already posted their goodbye’s on the site.

Writer and reporter Neal Ungerleider writes on the site that there have been discussions among writers leaving about forming a new site in the future, writing “So what now? In September, I hope to rejoin some former True/Slanters at a new — as of yet disclosed — project.”

In May, True/Slant was doing 1.5 million uniques on what we estimated at the time to be around 3.5 million page views.