A week ago, employees at the Gothamist and DNAinfo were celebrating after a successful vote to join the Writers Guild.  The Gothamist is a noted New York City website devoted to covering local news.  It operates affiliated sites in Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Los Angeles; and San Francisco. The reporters' celebration was short-lived.  Yesterday, the publisher of the Gothamist and its parent website, DNAinfo, informed all employees that he was shutting them down. Joe Ricketts, who founded Ameritrade, made the announcement in an email. CNNMoney: "Today, I've made the difficult decision to discontinue publishing DNAinfo and Gothamist. Reaching this decision wasn't easy, and it wasn't one I made lightly," said Ricketts, who founded TD Ameritrade and is worth a little more than $2 billion according to Forbes. He added that DNAinfo, which was founded in 2009, "is, at the end of the day, a business, and businesses need...(Read Full Post)