![]() … Peter Thiel decided it wasn’t part of the deal.” “If you’re a Wall Street billionaire, you understand that when you acquire power and you wield it, that there’s people whose job it is to try to check that. “We have a lot of heads mounted on the wall that I’m pretty proud of,” said John Cook, executive editor of Gawker Media. Thiel was “a malevolent supervillain” who waged “a covert legal war against us for a decade,” Deadspin editor Tim Marchman said. Thiel later admitted to secretly bankrolling legal action against some of Gawker’s more questionable posts - including Bollea’s. It was recently revealed that Bollea’s suit against Gawker was the culmination of a secret, years-long vendetta by Thiel, cofounder of PayPal, whom Gawker outed as gay back in the 2000s. That, in a true tabloid turn, is what led to Gawker’s demise at the hands of tech investor Peter Thiel. Gawker has unmasked trolls, brought down congressmen and embarrassed captains of industry in Silicon Valley by publishing the kind of exposes it published about business tycoons in New York. Its predominant literary influence seems to be Slack or Gchat, with posts often written in the voice of an ultrasmart twentysomething trashing a more successful enemy while trying not to come off like too much of a snob. It influenced the way younger writers now write online. Over the years, Gawker grew into a nationally read publication whose alumni can be found everywhere, from such legacy media like the New York Times and the New Yorker to cutting-edge digital operations like Vox Media and the annotation site News Genius. It was really singular in the amount of freedom that we had.” “When I talk to people who worked there, we had the same lament: that we were spoiled, we didn’t know what we had when we were there,” Ryan said. Some of Ryan’s most popular posts included “How to Tell the Difference Between All the Dudes Running for President,” “What We’re Really Talking About When We Talk About Hillary Clinton Without Makeup,” and a reported story about a college rugby team that had chanted about rape, necrophilia and violence against women. Ryan was working in finance in Chicago when Jezebel hired her - because it liked her comments beneath Jezebel stories. “It was like a place that always gave people a shot, who other places would maybe not give a shot to - people who weren’t maybe professional writers by trade, hadn’t gone to J-school, didn’t have a reporting background, but had a funny perspective,” said Erin Gloria Ryan, a former managing editor of Jezebel. The original Gawker gossip blog was launched in December 2002 by former British journalist Nick Denton, who ran the website from his apartment in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.Gawker Media offered new writers a chance, and it offered them the opportunity to say almost anything they wanted to say, as long as it was interesting. The company was first incorporated in Budapest, Hungary, where it maintains a small office with several programmers. ![]() In August 2003, Spiers left Gawker to write for New York magazine and her position was replaced by art dealer Choire Sicha. In August 2004, Denton promoted Sicha to the newly created position of editorial director for Gawker Media and hired Jessica Coen, a film studio assistant, to replace Sicha. In mid-2006, Coen left Gawker to work for Vanity Fair and was replaced by Emily Gould. In 2008, an office space was set up for Gawker employees in the Nolita neighborhood of New York City. On October 3rd, 2008, the Gawker rumor blog Valleywag published a memo from Denton announcing the layoff of 19 of the 133 editorial positions at Gawker Media. In late 2002, Gawker's first sister site Gizmodo was launched as a technology news blog under the editorship of Engadget cofounder Peter Rojas. In November 2003, the sex-oriented blog Fleshbot was launched. In 2004, Denton launched the left-leaning political blog Wonkette, the celebrity gossip blog Defamer, the news aggregator blog Kinja, the car culture blog Jalopnik and the videogame blog Kotaku. In 2005, geek lifestyle blog Lifehacker and the sports news blog Deadspin were launched. In January 2008, the sci-fi blog io9 was launched. #Gawker site softwareĪccording to Wikipedia, Gawker Media sold the sites Idolator, Gridskipper and Wonkette on April 14th, 2008.Īs of October 2012, Gawker Media is comprised of eight daily weblogs specializing in different beats: its flagship blog Gawker, sports blog Deadspin, consumer tech blog Gizmodo, videogame blog Kotaku, software blog Lifehacker, sci-fi and futurist blog io9, automobile blog Jalopnik and women's interest blog Jezebel. Gawker Media's flagship blog typically publishes anywhere from 30 to 50 posts a day, covering a wide range of topics like celebrity and media industry gossip, news media criticisms and other news stories that are relevant to the New York metropolitan area.
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