Salon ceases publication after 31 years as its web publishing model fails
Salon ended publication on November 5th, 2026, 31 years after David Talbot and co-founders launched it as an early web-native magazine.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: www.salon.com
Why it matters
Salon was one of the first publications built for the web, and its closure after sales in 2019 and 2023 shows how audience scale alone stopped being enough to sustain independent digital journalism.
Salon ceased publication on November 5th, 2026, ending a 31-year run that began in the first wave of web-native journalism.
In its goodbye post, Salon said the business realities of independent digital journalism had changed profoundly and that its publishing model was no longer sustainable. The title was founded by David Talbot, Gary Kamiya, Andrew Ross, Mignon Khargie, Scott Rosenberg and Laura Miller.…
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