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“What Cheese Are You?” was a quiz that appeared online in February 2014. BuzzFeed, the digital media company that published the quiz, returned to the same theme in December 2016 (“What Delicious Cheese Are You Based on Your Zodiac Sign?”), February 2018 (“Everyone Has a Cheese That Matches Their Personality—Here’s Yours”), August 2019 (“This…
This is an archived copy of an article from Deadspin that no longer exists. I have removed forwarding for that reason. There is a version of the story of this company in which idealistic journalists, unconcerned with profit, are posed against ruthless business-doers, concerned about profit above all else. That would be a convenient story,…
The new site’s only two full-time writers exited Wednesday in protest of editorial director Carson Griffith’s offensive remarks about everything from race to penis size. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast Gawker 2.0 is blowing up on the launchpad just two weeks after the site’s first group of new staffers came aboard. On Wednesday…
On Thursday Wall Street Journal reporter Lukas Alpert tweeted that Bryan Goldberg, founder of the Bleacher Report and “women’s website” Bustle, had won Gawker’s bankruptcy auction. You might remember that Goldberg was, I’ll remind you again, a man, who bragged about raising $6.5 million to start a site for women, something he seemed to think…
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel—who secretly schemed to annihilate Gawker Media, a goal he achieved in August 2016, and to force its founder, Nick Denton, into personal bankruptcy—may yet have cause to regret that he has reveled so publicly in his vengeful triumph. The German-born, Donald Trump-supporting (with a $1.25 million campaign donation) Thiel is…
Advisers who represent what remains of Gawker Media Group in bankruptcy are exploring whether they can bring a viable lawsuit against Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire who helped finance Hulk Hogan’s successful legal battle against the publisher. Gawker on Tuesday asked a bankruptcy judge for permission to subpoena Mr. Thiel to obtain information upon…
When Hulk Hogan faced off in court against the Web site Gawker, earlier this year, it was easy to become distracted by the rococo tawdriness of the spectacle. After all, the case centered on the leak of a surreptitiously videotaped sexual encounter between Hogan, the professional wrestler, and the wife of his erstwhile best…
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…