Some news… The first hires for the new Gawker have been announced: The winner was Bryan Goldberg’s Bustle Digital Media, a company more known for SEO skills than authorial anarchy.Ī few months later, a relaunch under new management was announced… The URL and brand were sold at auction in 2018 for $1.35 million. Gawker was one of the few places ever to exist that offered both a large, steady audience and almost complete freedom.”) 2 If you want complete freedom to write whatever the hell you want, you write on your personal Tumblr, where the whole world will ignore you. If you want a lot of people to pay attention to you, you work at a place where the individual writer’s voice is completely subsumed into the institutional voice. (I always liked Hamilton Nolan’s take: “Most journalism jobs exist on a continuum between audience and freedom. While its sister sites shuffled through owners and staff revolts over the past half-decade, Gawker was viewed as a poisoned asset - the result of both its late-in-life legal problems and its reputation in more staid quarters as a violator of journalistic norms. Not that there was any reason to doubt Ben’s reporting, but Finnegan piped up last night with a confirmation. (Speaking of that spirit: Bustle Digital Group confirmed to me that it’s reviving the legendary blog Gawker under a former Gawker writer, Leah Finnegan.) told me she will be taking Ask Polly from New York Magazine to “regain some of the indie spirit and sense of freedom that drew me to want to write online in the first place.” 1 In his Monday New York Times column, Ben Smith dropped this little nugget: The website that helped define the tone of 2000s online media has been just a static page ever since.īut now - really, this time - that seems ready to change. Peter Thiel was still spending his money suing news outlets out of existence, not backing the Trump campaign. “ Work From Home” was just a hot summer jam, not a way of life. Barack Obama was still president back then. Want to feel old, at least in Internet years? Gawker has been shut down… for nearly five years now.

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