11/21/2023 0 Comments New gawker site![]() ![]() In 2007 Gawker published a story about Thiel's homosexuality. The former wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, won a $US140 million judgment against the site, and later settled for $US31 million. Mr Thiel funded former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker after the site published a sex tape featuring Hogan. Most of its assets, including its sister pages Deadspin, a sports site, and Jezebel, a feminist blog, were bought in 2016 for $US135 million by media company Univision Holdings Inc. This article was amended on 12 September 2018 to correct Anna Merlan’s job title.Gawker, which has been inactive for more than a year, is conducting an auction of its remaining assets including its domain names and nearly 200,000 archived articles. If it lasts longer than that, I’m not sure they hired the right people.” If they hire the right people, it could be good again, for a year or two, until it makes someone mad again. “A tidy end to its story seemed better than many possible alternatives,” said Pareene. I wish someone would ask Bryan what his actual vision for the site is, as well as whether he intends to take down old posts, including ones making fun of him.” “I suppose if they re-hired former staffers and former editors, and Bryan Goldberg sat very still, doing and saying absolutely nothing, perhaps it could look something like the old Gawker. Goldberg is not a popular figure among current or former staffers, something Anna Merlan, a senior reporter at the Special Projects Desk, explained. Especially when the person doing it is a guy like ” she wrote in a message, linking to an old Gawker piece titled Who Gave This Asshole $6.5 Million to Launch a Bro-Tastic Lady Site? about the launch of Bustle. Relaunches like this are always disappointing and a little depressing. “Honestly, at this point, I’d rather the site just stay up as a static archive and nothing else. ![]() “I have a hard time imagining a scenario where this is not terrible, but I hope I’m wrong,” Ashley Feinberg, a former Gawker senior writer said. To that he added, on the idea of the site being reborn: “It’s stupid and I hate it.”īy and large, that was the prevailing takeaway. Without that, the site will remain a shell of its former self with it, something new and good may actually emerge.” “The best thing the staff of New Gawker can do to honor the legacy of Old Gawker would be to form a union and demand complete editorial independence as soon as possible. “All of Bryan Goldberg’s employees should unionize,” Hamilton Nolan, a veteran writer at Gawker, and now at Splinter News, offered by way of advice.īrendon O’Connor, and editor and staff writer toward the end of Gawker’s run echoed that sentiment. Others expressed hope that the new site would take a lesson from recent efforts among staffs at websites around the media landscape, like those at Gizmodo Media Group did in 2016, and unionize. Lawson declined to comment on that employment proposal. “Bring back Richard Lawson,” he offered, in reference to the longtime Gawker writer, now at Vanity Fair. John Cook, the former executive editor of Gawker Media Group was similarly blunt. “Haha, omg,” he wrote in a direct message. Others, like longtime editor, Choire Sicha, now at the New York Times, replied more succinctly, albeit characteristically, to the idea of Zombie Gawker. ![]() “But I don’t know the world needs another website called Gawker.” “Looking around the media landscape of 2018, I believe the world needs a website like the old Gawker,” Gabriel Snyder, editor in chief from 2008-2010 said. Or, to put it in more typically Gawker fashion: “It’s a hornets’ nest into which I do not wish to stick my dick,” as one said. For some, it was out of a reluctance to comment on what has become such a thorny legal morass. Of the dozen plus asked for comment, from longstanding editors to current writers at Gizmodo Media Group sites, many declined to go on the record, a surprising reticence from the typically outspoken Gawker house style. What form that will take remains to be seen, as the site will likely launch in the second half of 2019, but among former staffers and contributors, there doesn’t seem to be an abundance of optimism. “We won’t recreate Gawker exactly as it was, but we will build upon Gawker’s legacy and triumphs – and learn from its missteps,” he wrote. Goldberg said the idea was not to replicate the past. Goldberg also announced that Amanda Hale, recently the chief revenue officer of The Outline, a post-Gawker-style site that fired a number of staffers last week, would assume the role of publisher. “I was content, at last, with Gawker being dead,” said Alex Pareene, who worked for Gawker from 2005 until it closed down as the last editor in chief. ![]()
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