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Pitchfork Names Mano Sundaresan as New Head of Editorial Content: Exclusive

Mano Sundaresan, who founded the blog No Bells and worked at NPR, aims to bring "adaptability and experimentation" to Pitchfork as head of editorial.

In January, parent company Condé Nast folded Pitchfork into GQ and cut a number of longtime staffers, including Puja Patel, who had served as editor in chief since 2018. The backlash was swift: The Washington Post declared “the end of Pitchfork,” while The Guardian called the move “a travesty for music media” and many publications ran postmortems eulogizing the venerated site. I feel confident in my ability to lead the title, and I think we have an incredibly exciting new voice, new thinker — it wasn’t until I talked to Mano that it really crystallized what I thought the future of Pitchfork should be.

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