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As of midnight last Friday night, Fusion’s parent company, Univision Communications, is now the proud owner of six awesome blogs: Gizmodo, Kotaku, Deadspin, Jezebel, Lifehacker, and Jalopnik. The deal closed, sadly, with precious little celebration. Instead, the weekend was dominated by controversy over the deletion of six posts which were not part of the acquisition…
Univision has said that it bought Gawker Media because it believed in the work that our publications do. That work, for well over a decade, was only possible because we knew that our company leadership would defend it if it came under frivolous legal attack. Univision’s first act on acquiring the company was to delete…
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The Huffington Post was not founded to be a business that generated enormous profits. Before it became the 154th most popular Web site in the world, its goal was chiefly political. Following John Kerry’s loss in the 2004 presidential election, Huffington and her co-founders, including the investor Ken Lerer and the digital-media savant Jonah Peretti,…
In August 2014, Arianna Huffington, the wealthy, Greek-born co-founder of the Huffington Post, got a brief e-mail from her friend Fareed Zakaria. Zakaria, the television host and journalist, had recently come under intense media scrutiny amid allegations that he had lifted passages from other writers’ work and used them without proper attribution—new instances of an…
Start Article Post Content The Writers Guild of America East has objected to Univision’s removal of six posts on Gawker Media websites because those posts are involved in lawsuits. Univision, which acquired six Gawker sites last month for $135 million, said Saturday that the decision “was based on a desire to have a clean slate”…
Back in June, we had a post about an absolutely ridiculous lawsuit filed by noted internet news troll Chuck C. Johnson against Gawker, basically because they said some mean things about him, and mocked Johnson’s own style of publishing bullshit articles that attempt to imply something awful about someone by asking a question about them….
In a vote carried out on Friday night, Univision executives voted to remove six posts published by former Gawker Media properties that are involved in ongoing litigation. The vote took place just hours before the close of Univision’s purchase of Gawker Media’s assets, and was carried out under a provision in Gawker’s existing collective bargaining…
At the same time, we are revising our practices to require removal and correction of any AP tweets found not to meet AP standards, including tweets that contain information that is incorrect, misleading, unclear or could be interpreted as unfair, or having a problem in tone. The tweet sent on Aug. 23 was the subject…