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Inside the Turmoil at Jezebel Nine people have left the website since March. Those we spoke to cited executive overreach and dwindling resources Jack Koloskus In March, G/O Media — the parent company of several former Gawker Media websites including the feminist blog Jezebel — hired former Forbes and Marie Claire editor, Lea Goldman, as…
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,…
Reporters, for all their flaws, tend to understand what’s happening in their own newsrooms. It’s their job to try to see things clearly. Often, what they see in their workplaces is low salaries, inept management and poor communication — ills that plague many workplaces across America. For more than two years now, online media outlets…
Photo Periodicals on hand in late April 2015 at Gawker Media’s former offices in New York’s SoHo neighborhood. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times. The end of Gawker Media as an independent company is near. Under financial pressure from a $140 million legal judgment in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit by the former wrestler Hulk…