Technology website Delimiter to close; Founder LeMay ‘I’m kind of done with journalism’
Independent technology website Delimiter is to close, site owner Renai LeMay has announced.
In an article on the site, LeMay said that although Delimiter remained profitable, he had successfully applied to become an adviser to Greens Senator Scott Ludlum and would be relocating from Sydney to Canberra.
He writes:
“It should be obvious that this new position has a direct conflict of interest with my work at Delimiter. As a journalist I have been staunchly independent, attempting to maintain good relationships with all sides of politics and the private sector and holding all to account. However, in my new role I will be directly supporting one side — the Greens — and its interests. And yes, I am now a paid-up member of the Greens political party. Then too, the demanding nature of my new role will preclude any work on Delimiter.
“I have explored various options for Delimiter to progress without me — ranging from selling the business outright to contracting others to run its editorial or even partnership arrangements with other organisations. These options are certainly feasible. Delimiter’s operations are already largely outsourced, with external organisations already managing its sales, finance and IT operations. And the site makes a very solid amount of revenue.
“However, ultimately I have decided to take the most simple and direct route for Delimiter’s future: To cease its commercial and publishing operations, while leaving the existing site online.”
LeMay – formerly a journalist on ZDNet – launched the site nearly five years ago.
In his farewell note he added: “I’m kind of done with journalism. I’ve done it for ten years now, at every level, and I don’t really want to do it any more. I want to do something else.”
Declaration of interest: For a time, Renai LeMay rented a desk at Mumbrella House. We kind of miss him.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025
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Best of luck Renai, at least I’ll have a friend to hang out with in Canberra now!
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How dare he? How could anyone be “done with journalism”? What with its appalling redundancy rates, diminishing titles, crap pay and sweatshop hours, the man’s clearly got no stomach, no zeal for the printed word. Go on, take your cushy public service job and leave the rest of us to our bitterness and broken dreams.
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That sucks for the readers but sounds like a great move for Renai. Delimiter does some great reporting. Their coverage of the NBN and the spin from both sides of politics regarding it was really well done.
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Clearly the anti NBN forces at the abc got to him
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Congratulations Renai! Sad to see you go from Delimiter – always good to see someone successfully push out on their own. 5yrs went quickly…
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just what we need, another Greens’ member. For the love of God that party is clueless
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About what I’d expect from someone called Neville.
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OK that was uncalled for.
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Nah, pretty spot on Tim.
Nice one Renai.
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Well done. Will miss Delimiter.
I’m not a complete Green, but I like that they actually think about the country and the population instead of their “mates”
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Will miss Delimiter very much Renai but wishing you every success in the new role – Scott is definitely one of the most switched-in people in the house!
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