#New gawker archive

In her post, Finnegan listed Gawker’s current editorial staff: Brandy Jensen (features editor), Jocelyn Silver (managing editor), George Civeris (senior editor), Kelly Conaboy (senior features writer), Jenny G. And if you don’t, that’s really more of a ‘you’ problem, I think.” Regarding the new Gawker’s frenetic design, which among things crops off much of the site’s logo on the homepage, Finnegan commented, “You might notice it all looks a little different, and to that I say ‘a change of scenery enriches the soul.’ So, I hope you like it.

The Thiel-backed litigation included Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Gawker over a video the website posted showing the wrestler having sex with his ex-friend’s wife a jury awarded Hogan $140 million in damages in the case. ( Univision sold those sites, known as Gizmodo Media Group, along with The Onion to a private-equity backed G/O Media.) Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, had been angry about an old Gawker story that reported he was gay. In 2016, Nick Denton’s Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy and sell six of its websites to Univision Communications for $135 million - excluding - after it lost lawsuits funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. Do Gawker … again.”įinnegan was Gawker’s features editor from 2014-15, moving on to become executive editor of tech-focused site The Outline, which BDG acquired in 2019 and then shut down last year. “The world was lost in darkness and desperately needed light. I was living off of Biden Bucks, watching a lot of ‘Love It or List It,’ and wondering what I would do with my life,” she wrote. After the company came back to her in January, “It was a dark time. Gawker the snarky gossip site that went bankrupt five years ago because of a lawsuit over a Hulk Hogan sex tape.

“The current laws of civility mean that no, it can’t be exactly what it once was, but we strive to honor the past and embrace the present,” Finnegan wrote in the reborn site’s welcome post.įinnegan said she initially turned down BDG’s offer to run Gawker last year. J5:10pm Updated Gawker quietly relaunched its website on Wednesday. “I’ve weighed my options carefully, and the company’s acquisition feels like a natural conclusion to what has been a life-changing five years,” Korn wrote.Current headlines on Gawker include “Do Justin and Hailey Bieber Hate Each Other?”, “Teigen Tales: House Sold for $17 Million” and “Manga-Loving Teens J’Accused of Misusing Government Dollars.”īDG hired Leah Finnegan, a former Gawker staffer, as the new site’s editor in chief. Welcome to The Cuck, a pop-up, bespoke men’s site, for men. And yet, there’s nowhere on the internet where you can go to read them. Separately, on Monday, Nylon editor-in-chief Gabrielle Korn announced in a letter published on the site that she would be resigning in the wake of BDG’s takeover of the fashion and culture publication. Sex, dating, clothes, relationships, politics, sex, womenmen have opinions about all of these things. This year, it has acquired Inverse, The Outline, and Nylon, after buying up Mic, Gawker, Elite Daily, Flavorpill, and The Zoe Report, adding them to its original brands Bustle and Romper. Founded in 2013, BDG has made eight acquisitions to date. Goldberg’s purchase of the assets was part of his larger roll-up strategy to build a large-scale digital media company by combining smaller and/or distressed properties into Bustle Digital Group. The Thiel-backed litigation included wrestler Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Gawker over a video the website posted showing the wrestler having sex with his ex-friend’s wife a jury awarded Hogan $140 million in damages in the case. ( Univision sold those sites, known as Gizmodo Media Group, along with The Onion to a private-equity backed G/O Media in April.) Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, had been angry about an old Gawker story that reported he was gay. In 2016, Nick Denton’s Gawker Media was driven to file for bankruptcy and sell six of its websites to Univision Communications for $135 million - excluding - after it was targeted by lawsuits funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.

#New gawker archive

The deal included an archive of nearly 200,000 articles from Gawker, whose tagline was “Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s news.” In a memo to BDG staff last fall, Goldberg said, “We won’t recreate Gawker exactly as it was, but we will build upon Gawker’s legacy and triumphs - and learn from its missteps.”

Goldberg was the winning bidder for a year ago, paying $1.35 million for the site, which has been inactive since August 2016.