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Court tosses defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast over an article that destroyed Gawker 2.0
Former Gawker editor sued The Daily Beast over an article she said inaccurately portrayed her as "r…
Jacob Shamsian
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An Apple TV Plus series about Gawker Media was axed after Tim Cook found out about it
Tim Cook was surprised Apple were making a show about Gawker Media, the Times reported. Gawker.com …
Kate Duffy
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Former Deadspin writers have formed a new sports website called 'Defector' after a public fight with their billionaire owner led to droves of staff quitting
The new site won't have a "stick to sports" mantra. The journalists also get more collective bargai…
Graham Rapier
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A group of former Gawker employees launched a Kickstarter to buy back Gawker.com
The reason that the archives and domain name are for sale is because they were not included in the …
Kif Leswing
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The CEO behind Bustle and the new Gawker is reportedly making a bid on the remaining Gizmodo Media blogs
Last week, Goldberg's company Bustle Digital Group sent an offer between $30 million and $40 millio…
Becky Peterson
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Bryan Goldberg quietly purchased Valleywag in addition to Gawker - and it could be heading for a relaunch
Under Goldberg, Gawker will be part of a subsidiary "completely distinct from our other properties,…
Lauren Johnson
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The new owner of Gawker and Mic just acquired a $21 million independent publication that was supposed to reinvent digital media
Bustle Digital Group, which itself has raised more than $80 million in venture capital, has bought …
Becky Peterson
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Peter Thiel's campaign to destroy Gawker was reportedly inspired by a mysterious 'Mr. A'
In an interview in The Atlantic also published on Friday, marketer and author Ryan Holiday - the au…
Rob Price
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Univision reportedly wants to unload Fusion Media Group, suite of websites it acquired in $135 million Gawker Media fire sale
Univision acquired the websites when it bought Gawker Media for $135 million in 2016. Gawker Media …
Bryan Logan
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Musk's media renegades: The anti-establishment writers including Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss chosen for the 'Twitter Files'
Five independent journalists and an author were given access to internal Twitter documents by Elon …
Lindsay Dodgson
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Gawker settles with Hulk Hogan: 'The saga is over'
Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Deadspin, Jezebel, Kotaku and Jalopnik - now under the ownership of Univision …
Nathan McAlone
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Gawker Media reportedly wants to sue Peter Thiel
In March, Hogan was awarded $140 million in damages stemming from a Gawker article published in 201…
Nathan McAlone,Steven Tweedie
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John Cook becomes the latest top Gawker figure to exit Gizmodo Media Group
"I've watched with envy in recent months as various friends - including the occasional former colle…
Maxwell Tani
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Mashable is selling itself for $50 million to an old school magazine publisher that tried to buy Gawker
Mashable gained popularity as an early example of profitable digital media shortly after its foundi…
Becky Peterson
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Gawker Media CEO explains why Gawker felt it needed to publish the Hulk Hogan sex tape clip
When asked about the need for the post to include parts of the video itself, Denton said that "[you…
Dan Turkel
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The 35-year-old founder of Bustle and Bleacher Report reportedly just bought Gawker.com for $1.13 million, and Hulk Hogan is entitled to a cut of the sale
The sale of Gawker.com comes two years after a legal battled forced Gawker Media, the publisher of …
Becky Peterson
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The Daily Beast CEO Heather Dietrick once had to tell 200 people that Gawker was going bankrupt, and she says that 'wartime' leadership style serves her just as well when everything is at peace
Dietrick: I was looking for a place that was very mission-driven, No. 1. I had learned Gawker throu…
Richard Feloni,Sarah Wyman
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Controversial billionaire Peter Thiel might be looking to buy Gawker.com - the news site he helped Hulk Hogan take down
"I saw Gawker pioneer a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people …
Matt Weinberger
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Ford Found An Extravagant Way To Deal With Negative Gawker Commenters
The real purpose was to get them to interact with the very car they had commented about on Jalopnik…
Laura Stampler
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CHART: There's One Guy At Gawker Obliterating Everyone Else In Traffic
While some might be dismissive of his work as just cat videos, or other light viral fare, Zimmerman…