The Fusion Media Group ( FMG ; formerly Fusion Media Network) is a division of Univision Communications . The company was launched in April 2016 after Univision bought out Disney's stake in Fusion through the Fusion Media Network joint venture between Univision & Disney-ABC. While Univision is focused on serving Hispanic America in Spanish, FMG is the company's multi-platform, English language division targeting young adults.
7-556: The Root , an online magazine on African-American culture, was acquired by Univision in 2015. It was eventually placed within FMG. In January 2016, The Onion was acquired, along with its sibling properties. Univision Story House was introduced in May 2016 as the content development and production unit of Univision , but to be managed by FMG. In August 2016, FMG acquired the online properties of Gawker Media , excluding Gawker.com , and renamed
14-463: A wide variety of people from celebrities such as Donald Glover , writers like Roxane Gay , and athletes. Other influential people in the black community who are not as well known, such as activists, are encouraged to be added to the list as well. This article relating to a magazine connected with culture is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on
21-427: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Root (magazine) The Root is an African American-oriented online magazine . It was launched on January 28, 2008, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald E. Graham . The Root was owned by Graham Holdings Company through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group . In 2015, Graham Holdings sold The Root to Univision Communications . The site
28-588: The company Gizmodo Media Group. In July 2018, it was reported that Univision plans on selling the Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion . In April 2019, Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion were sold to Great Hill Partners. The sale was completed on April 8, 2019, with Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion being merged to form G/O Media, Inc. FMG includes both online and television properties, with a combined digital reach of around 65.6 million people in May 2016. This United States media company article
35-471: The conclusion that, basically, The Root is over." The Root 100 is the magazine's annual "list of the 100 most important black influencers between the ages of 25 and 45." This list has been published since 2011, when it began ranking honorees using an influence score that resulted from a mathematical formula developed by scholar Omar Wasow . Readers of The Root are allowed to nominate those who they feel are deserving of being on this list. The list has had
42-413: Was appointed editor of HuffPost . On April 14, 2021, it was announced that Vanessa De Luca had been appointed editor-in-chief. She was succeeded by Tasha Robertson on June 22, 2023. Since April 2021 The Root has seen substantial staff turnover with 15 out of the 16 full-time staffers resigning following internal tensions, with former staff member Michael Harriot saying that, "as a staff, we came to
49-457: Was subsequently re-launched under the Kinja platform used by other Gizmodo Media Group (formerly Gawker Media ) websites. GMG was later succeeded by G/O Media as owner of The Root . In July 2017, the blog Very Smart Brothas, co-founded by Damon Young and Panama Jackson, became a vertical of The Root . Danielle Belton was editor-in-chief at The Root between 2017 and 2021, when she
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