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Here lies Defamer, a Hollywood gossip site launched by Gawker Media in 2004 and maintained, with varying degrees of effort and resources, until 2015. Its writers and editors over the years have included Mark Lisanti, A.J. Daulerio, and Lacey Donohue. The site’s archives are maintained here, but no new posts will be…
Here lies Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip and news site launched in 2006 by Gawker Media and decommissioned in 2015. Its editors and writers over the years included Nick Douglas, Nick Denton, Owen Thomas, Ryan Tate, Nitasha Tiku, and Sam Biddle. The site’s archives are maintained here, but no new posts will be…
After the announcement that I was being named permanent executive editor of Gawker Media, and after Buzzfeed’s publication of its diversity statistics last month, we received renewed calls internally from editorial staff members for an accounting of the racial and gender diversity of our teams. We have gathered the…
Fatherhood changes a man, which explains why Twitter oracle Kanye West took a charmingly domestic turn tonight, warning parents everywhere of the dangers that stupid little iPad games present when placed in the hands of children: Those stubby little fingers will click on those colorful in-app purchase buttons, racking…
I sent this note to Gawker Media’s editorial staff this morning:
Nick Gillespie, a leather-jacket-wearing 51-year-old libertarian with a remarkable head of hair, is attacking hapless New York Mayor Bill de Blasio as a rich “fat cat” in the Daily Beast, because de Blasio made $217,656 last year (not to mention $65,000 in rental income). All told, that’s five times the median…
The Washington Post reported this morning that, pursuant to CIA Director John Brennan's vaunted re-organization plans, the chief of the agency's counterterrorism center has been unceremoniously reassigned. The newspaper declined to report this name, however: Michael D'Andrea.
Much of the mundane, day-to-day media coverage of the president's activities is conducted under an arrangement that Matthew Yglesias has called a "mutually agreed upon plagiarism pact"—the pool report. Convention dictates that a reporter bear witness to essentially everything the president does outside the White…
Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has not been seen in public since March 5 and is feared in some panicky circles to have died or worse, has the flu, a CIA source tells Gawker. Or at least that's what the CIA thinks.
Today, Gawker Media filed a Freedom of Information Act complaint in U.S. District Court against the Department of State, seeking email correspondence between former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philippe Reines and members of the news media.
Gawker Media runs on tips and leaks from people with information to share. To make that sharing as private as possible, we are announcing our newest, most secure method for sending things to our reporters and editors: the Gawker Media SecureDrop.
This is a regularly updated list of Gawker Media editorial employees who have taken steps to send and receive encrypted communications, with links to their public PGP keys and fingerprints. They are all reachable via email, or via Google Talk chat using the email addresses listed below. Their OTR fingerprints—for the…
Everyone has a David Carr story. Here is mine.
Gawker Media is looking for a researcher to add muscle to our reporting teams across all eight sites in the Gawker network.
Call it the ingathering of the exiles. I'm happy to announce that Alex Pareene, fresh from overseeing the spectacular launch of Racket Teen, is the latest in a string of former staffers to return to Gawker Media's deathless embrace.
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