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In the coming weeks, I’m told, Vox Media C.E.O. Jim Bankoff is likely to agree to multiple deals to sell various assets of his company, including the Vox Media Podcast Network, New York magazine, and the portfolio of digital brands that includes The Verge, Eater, and SB Nation—a tidy but somewhat anticlimactic end to one of the great media roll-ups of the 2010s. “There’s not one deal, there are deals,” a source familiar with said deals told me. Another source close to the matter suggested that negotiations on all fronts were “positive,” but cautioned that they were still “far from conclusion.”
