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My opinion: The Olympics are boring and bad and nobody actually cares about them. The professionalized version of sports events staged at the Olympics are in almost every case more competitive and more entertaining than their Olympic counterparts: No avid NBA fan cares about Olympic basketball; no Premier League follower gives a crap about Olympic…
GALLERY VERTICAL START “Tinder Date,” Michelle entitled her blog entry. “On Monday I went on a first date with a man I met on Tinder. We met in a pub. After a couple of drinks we moved on to a restaurant. He bought me dinner. We strolled arm in arm on the South Bank. He…
By Emily Zanotti | 5:28 pm, August 5, 2016 Banker Steve Mnuchin is an integral part of the Donald Trump campaign, serving as its Campaign Finance Chair and chief bundler, particularly from the financial sector. Although Mnuchin has little experience as a fundraiser (particularly for Republicans), he’s a Wall Street veteran, who spent 17 years…
Updated Aug. 11, 2016 8:36 a.m. ET Arianna Huffington, who co-founded the Huffington Post 11 years ago and built it into one of the largest digital media outlets in the U.S., says she will be leaving the company in the coming weeks to focus on a soon-to-launch startup dedicated to issues of health and wellness….
As venture capitalists exercise more caution and place fewer bets, they’re leaving media startups behind. Venture funding to media-tech companies slid for the third consecutive quarter to $91.7 million, the lowest amount since mid-2013, according to data from industry researcher CB Insights. Investment activity followed a similar trend, declining to the fewest number of deals…
Arianna Huffington, the cofounder and namesake of The Huffington Post, will be stepping down today. Arianna will be focusing on new Thrive site (lifestyle, wellness, sleep) as she steps down at HuffPost: pic.twitter.com/c1ROu95gmK — Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) August 11, 2016 Reports indicate that there is a HuffPo staff meeting expected for 11 a.m. Thursday. In…
Image: @Brachyzoid / Twitter. A paras and rattata spawned in the same location and clipped through each other, expressing how I feel. Woah buddy it’s 10:30am on a Monday and this hungover blogger has something to get off his chest. After writing no fewer than 17 posts in the past few weeks about our nation’s…
GIF Shrek is love. Shrek is life. If you’ve spent more than a few seconds of your life on the Internet, you’ve probably seen a Shrek meme. Maybe it involved Smash Mouth’s seminal 1999 hit “All Star,” the song that inspired a whole generation to unite in shared mockery of Smash Mouth. Or maybe it…
Yesterday, Gawker Editor-in-Chief Alex Pareene lied to you, the readers here at Gawker.com. He said, should you write into the Gawker tips line with your phone number, that I would then text you an obscene image of the popular children’s character “Shrek.” I agreed to no such thing. I will, however, share that obscene image…
I’ve had lots of ideas in my time here at Gawker Media, all of them good. I’ve also had countless constructive and fruitful conversations with various editors about my ideas, and I know I’m better for it. However, these same editors have also made mistakes—egregious ones. Fortunately, the advent of the messaging app Slack has…