![]() Like any other outlet, it could brand a gag and run it into the ground the. I never thought the Gawker Stalker thing was interesting. And then there was OG Gawker - it started in 2002 and 14 years later had to be sold off (along with all of Gawker Media) to Univision for $135 million after being bankrupted by a Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel tag team. Gawker, which had been posting map-free 'Stalker' sightings for two years, is now digging in its heels against famously protective celebrity publicists. Plenty of things about the site drove me up the wall. An anonymous reader writes: Its official.'Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made an offer for Gawker,' reports Reuters, adding that the potential acquisition 'would let him take down stories regarding his personal life that are still available on the website, and remove the scope for further litigation between him and Gawker. Gawker got bigger, hungrier for more eyeballs, and Stalker faded from prominence a few years ago (more or less). which at one point included the Gawker stalker a crowd-sourced. There was the “new” Gawker, which was acquired by BDG and then had its “relaunch” abruptly canceled in 2019. Gawker was founded 14 years ago, and grew to become one of the internet’s most popular media and gossip sites. This marks the third time Gawker has been shut down. The Outline got cut in 2020, and in 2022, Input was completely closed while Mic lost a number of staffers. Max Tani of Semafor reported on the same day of Gawker’s cut that BDG was also laying off “8 percent of staff.” This isn’t the first BDG site to get the axe. ![]() In an email to employees, Bustle Digital Group CEO Bryan Goldberg announces the company is laying off 8% of staff and “suspending operations” at Gawker /ushUzsISUa- Max Tani February 1, 2023 I had an absolute blast, and I love you.” The revamped site’s features editor, Brandy Jensen, quote-tweeted, saying, “If you owe me a draft i’m really sorry but they cut off my email access lmao.” “Can’t say enough about how proud I am of the site and all the brilliant people who worked to create it, and what a staggering shame this is. “Well, after an incredible 1.5 years, BDG has decided it is done with Gawker 2.0,” editor-in-chief Leah Finnegan wrote on Twitter on February 1. Just a year and a half after being brought back to life by Bustle Digital Group ( after being killed by Bustle Digital Group), Gawker is once again going back to the media gravesite. ![]()
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