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William Arkin, the founder of Gawker Media’s national security site, announced on Twitter Monday he is leaving the company during a round of buyouts offered to the editorial staff amid a reorientation of the site. Yes it is true: I am leaving Gawker and @GawkerPhaseZero, casualty, refugee of whatever it is that happened. Not quite…
Leah Finnegan, Gawker’s features editor, announced on Monday she is leaving the site as Gawker Media offers buyouts and realigns itself around new editorial standards. V. sad to leave gawker after 1 year. it was a great place. if you need an editor lmk. leah@leahfinnegan.com — Leah Finnegan (@leahfinnegan) July 27, 2015 Finnegan, who joined…
At least three editorial staffers at Gawker Media are leaving as the company appears to be undergoing dramatic changes William Arkin, who founded the company’s national security-focused site, “Phase Zero,” announced Monday that he will be departing Gawker Media. In a post on the site, Arkin called himself a “casualty” of the internal turmoil that…
In light of a story that divided the Gawker staff, Brian Stelter speaks with Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, about the future of his company. Meltdown at Gawker Media; what now?.
paging_filter Last week, Gawker Media C.E.O. Nick Denton announced that he would offer generous severance packages to employees who quit because they objected to Gawker’s new editorial policy. On July 16, Gawker published a controversial post about a male media executive, with a wife and three kids, who allegedly solicited a male escort. After near-universal…
Today the controversy-beset website moved to new offices. But is its founder really in it for the long haul, as he insists? One night in mid-June, weeks before his privately-held company suffered a very public meltdown over the widely condemned outing of a heterosexually married Condé Nast executive, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton had dinner…
So let’s say you’re a New York–based publication which has just published the words and portraits of 35 women who have accused Bill Cosby of rape — on your cover no less. Then a hacker decides to launch an all-out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, bringing your servers to their knees. The first reports…
Gawker founder Nick Denton is doing his best to put a positive spin on the chaos that has enveloped his media empire. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Denton said that perhaps the now-deleted awful item that outed a married man and led to two editors quitting under idiotic pretenses would be a…
Courtesy @laurenpainter’s Instagram Vice’s new Williamsburg offices were robbed of $16K worth of laptops this week, proving again that one should never build a home on top of an Indian burial ground. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the magazine’s headquarters at South 2nd Street and Kent Avenue—once home to venerable institutions like 285 Kent, Death…
Michael Wolff, USA TODAY 2:04 p.m. EDT July 13, 2015 The news media, like most businesses built on craft and culture, have largely worked as an apprentice system. Younger people learned skills and language from older people. A good media job would have been judged on the basis of the caliber of the more senior…