Indy: In Raleigh, Gawker’s Former “Editor of the Internet” Turns Toward Analog Media
Indy: Owners Neetzan Zimmerman and Yulia Shamis. Photo by Angelica Edwards.
In another timeline, journalist Neetzan Zimmerman was in charge of creating clickable stories that would drive millions of monthly page views to news websites such as Gawker, The Messenger, and The Hill.
Now, Zimmerman and his wife, Yulia Shamis, a biomedical scientist with a doctoral degree, have plans to chase a different kind of traffic: foot traffic on downtown Raleigh’s newly reemerging Fayetteville Street.
This summer, the couple will open The Newsagent’s, a cultural hub located in the historic Mahler building in the heart of the City of Oaks. Part bookshop, part coffee shop, part event space, The Newsagent’s will be, in Zimmerman’s telling, a museum of the common, “a place where people can come and appreciate all sorts of cultural artifacts from the past, things that maybe have been neglected or forgotten or set aside too early.”
“I’m not breaking new ground. I’m just trying to recapture something we’ve lost and something I think we need to find again. It’s important for society that we have these spaces and the time to spend with these artifacts, because they’re what make us human.”
via Indy Week
