Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
For the better part of two decades, Gawker Media and its founder and CEO Nick Denton have thrived on crisis. The company would fire executives, change directions and drop conversation-driving stories more frequently than perhaps any other digital publisher. But after today’s announcement that the company will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy today, according to documents filed in a Southern District of New York court. The filing comes as Gawker’s legal battle with the wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) drags on. Hogan sued Gawker after the site published a clip of his sex tape and a blog…
Peter Thiel, the libertarian Silicon Valley billionaire who has waged a secret, decade-long, multi-front legal battle against Gawker Media, has somewhat counterintuitively positioned himself as a guardian of free speech principles. But in response to Gawker’s critical coverage of the technology sector—coverage that Thiel has described as “terrible for the Valley”—he decided the company and…
Art by Jim Cooke Today The Daily Beast published an article titled “Anarchists for Donald Trump—Let the Empire Burn” in which the freelance journalist Christopher Ketcham explains the logic of certain progressive voters, including himself, who intend to vote for the presumptive Republican nominee in November. A sampling: What’s needed now in American politics is…
Peter Thiel is getting closer to his goal: Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy protection and says it eventually plans to find a new owner for the company. Gawker and owner Nick Denton are making the Chapter 11 filing today, in order to avoid paying Thiel and Hulk Hogan the $140 million judgment they…
Obtaining formal permission to use three quotations from New York Times articles in a book ultimately cost two professors $1,884. They’re outraged, and have taken to Kickstarter — in part to recoup the charges, but primarily, they say, to “protest the Times’ and publishers’ lack of respect for Fair Use.” Two California professors, Daniel C….
Dave Daley, the editor in chief of Salon.com, is leaving the publication to take a position as CEO and publisher of the Connecticut News Project. “After five years, David Daley decided to leave Salon to return to his home state to serve as CEO/Publisher for the Connecticut News Project, a decision he first surfaced with…
T are many things that we do in this life simply because we are required to, such as going to the dentist and telling people their babies are cute even though they look like someone tried to make a hand puppet out of a yam. Performing a sex act that you’re not suuuuuuper into just…
Raveena Aulakh was an award-winning global environment reporter. (Richard Lautens / Toronto Star) | Order this photo The union that represents Toronto Star newsroom employees called Tuesday for an independent investigation into the death of a Star reporter who recently took her own life. By all reports of those closest to her, the last thing…
A year and a half ago, Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton had ample reason to be optimistic about the future of the company that he had founded more than 12 years earlier. The company’s revenue had grown from about $5.3 million in 2006 to $43.8 million in 2014. It was consistently profitable, with a 2014…