In the wake of the website’s unceremonious death in August 2016, it was sold to Bryan Goldberg, an entrepreneur The New Yorker once described as “a giant six-year-old” and which Gawker itself once called a “clueless scamp.” On January 23, just one week after (new) ’s first four employees were announced, the Daily Beast reported that the site’s only two reporters stepped down due to another staffer making offensive and wholly inappropriate comments in the workplace five months later, the site’s sole senior editor followed suit and quit just ahead of Gawker’s scheduled relaunch in fall 2019, per the New York Post. Such is the fate of New Gawker - and that’s just the beginning of the story. He also declared personal bankruptcy as a result of the Hogan case.It would be a perfect Gawker story if it weren’t, uh, technically about Gawker: millionaire purchases a beloved website that used to mock him mercilessly after it was driven into bankruptcy by a vengeful billionaire, only to put it under the stewardship of someone with both a history of terrible tweets and the lack of foresight required to do a quick search-and-delete, leading to what seems to be total institutional chaos. In later years it branched out into salacious stories of all kinds, but still enjoyed needling establishment figures in media and technology.ĭenton, an outspoken a former Financial Times journalist, for now does not plan on going to Univision. The site was initially a breezy, insider-y chronicler of the media that made it a must-read for many in the industry. "I think in a lot of ways Gawker has helped to define the voice of the internet," said Josh Benton, the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, who said he's been a daily reader "as long as there's been a Gawker." The site became a breeding ground for journalists, some of whom went on to jobs at the sort of establishment media outposts Gawker itself frequently mocked. Gawker's snarky and frequently vulgar style was influential throughout publishing. Thiel's vendetta against Gawker raised concerns about wealthy people covertly working to undermine media companies they didn't like. Univision wants those properties to help build a more youthful audience than that commanded by broadcast TV.īut Gawker's real enemy, it turns out, wasn't Hogan so much as Peter Thiel, a PayPal founder and early investor in Facebook who a Gawker site had outed as gay in 2007. The company currently publishes seven sites in addition to, including the feminist-focused Jezebel, the tech site Gizmodo and the sports site Deadspin. "If you want to ascribe blame, blame Denton." "The real shame is that Gawker gave Hogan a sledgehammer with which (to) pulverize it in state court," New York University journalism professor Adam Penenberg tweeted.
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