A Good Run for Examiner.com

After eight years, AEG is shutting down the blogger platform.

The beginning of the end for examiner.com, a blogger platform currently clocking around 15 million monthly unique visitors and featuring many veteran journalists like L.A.-based Mike Szymanski, was sounded two years ago.

As Michael Roberts, a reporter for website Westworld, which has closely chronicled the eight-year-old site’s progress, reminds, that’s when a new player entered the portfolio of parent company Anschutz Entertainment Group (a.k.a. AEG Worldwide). From his piece:

Two years ago, examiner.com was folded into AXS, another Anschutz project that was described at the time as “AEG’s digital ticketing and media platform.”

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