Hotel Review Site Oyster.com Trims Staff, Cuts Back Expanding Coverage

FishbowlNY has learned that Oyster.com has let some of its hotel reviewing reporters go and has plans to slow the rate that it’s expanding its coverage of new areas.

A spokesperson for the company confirmed that “a subset of reporters” had been laid off from the Web site, which launched in June. The site, which has raised $10.4 million in funding from investors like Bain Capital Ventures, had previously boasted a staff of 20 full-time reporters, who go undercover to investigate hotels and take photos that are posted, unedited, next to 2,000-word reviews.

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