Nolte: Left-wing Gawker Is Shutting Down — Again
Gawker, a left-wing snark site, is shutting down…again
Gawker, a left-wing snark site, is shutting down…again
The predictably smug and dismissive reviews of My Son Hunter from left-wing outlets keep rolling in, with Gawker and Salon taking their turns at bat to trash the movie and stan the Biden family. Gawker goes the extra mile in the latter regard by declaring Hunter Biden a “Gen X icon,” comparable in stature to the band Nirvana and its frontman, the late Kurt Cobain.
Private equity firm Great Hill Partners has purchased Gizmodo Media Group and the Onion from Univision after the company bought the former Gawker Media in bankruptcy.
Gawker 2.0 reportedly lost its only two full-time writers on Wednesday, after both of them quit as a sign of protest against the newly hired editorial director, Carson Griffith.
44 employees have accepted a buyout from Gizmodo Media, formerly known as Gawker Media, to avoid layoffs following budget cuts at the company.
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made an offer to purchase Gawker, but may face some challenges in purchasing the defunct media blog.
Former employees of the gossip blog Gawker, which was shut down in 2016, are attempting to raise enough cash to purchase the rights to the website and relaunch it.
PayPal co-founder and Trump ally Peter Thiel has sold the majority of his stake in Facebook and reportedly seeks to purchase the remains of Gawker.
After 9 months of media flogging fake news stories that Silicon Valley’s top supporter is a vampire planning to live forever through transfusions of children’s’ blood, the Tech Crunch blog says there is no basis for the stories.
The fall of ESPN is still a hot topic in sports media, but former ESPN commentator Jason Whitlock has a unique point to add to the litany of reasons for the famed cable sports network’s troubles. Whitlock says that left-wing sports blog Deadspin caused ESPN to veer left, and that was the seed that caused the network’s downfall.
Liberal digital media companies are threatened by the policies they support, as a growing wave of leftist blog writers resorting to unionization threatens these companies’ survival.
Jezebel published an article ridiculing the training session they received from an official of the Department of Homeland Security for a workplace shooting because it was politically incorrect.
Sometimes the Deep State isn’t so deep. For something that’s supposed to be submerged, it doesn’t always hide very well.
Gizmodo Media, formerly known as Gawker Media, is reportedly planning a screening for employees only of a documentary about Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against the company after parent company Univision blocked a public screening.
Former Gawker CEO Nick Denton claimed that the left-wing establishment will have to adopt a nicer “Zen Buddhism response” to beat Breitbart News during a SXSW interview last week.
Michael Arceneaux writes in the Univision-owned blog, The Root, that Breitbart senior editor MILO’s brand is one of “white supremacy.”
Shiva Ayyadurai, the controversial man who claims to have invented email, has been granted a $750,000 defamation settlement from Gawker Media after writer Sam Biddle branded Ayyadurai a liar in 2012.
Gawker founder Nick Denton announced a settlement with Hulk Hogan, following the sale of Gawker and the personal bankruptcy of Denton.
In an effort to maintain Gawker-style journalistic standards, on Wednesday women’s blog Jezebel mocked the recent death of Mike Pence’s family dog.
The Silicon Valley Thought Police are demanding retaliation against top venture capitalist Peter Thiel for making a $1.25 million contribution to Republican Donald Trump.
Internet star Ken Bone recently did an AMA interview on Reddit. Gizmodo, continuing Gawker’s long legacy of internet shaming, trawled through Bone’s previous Reddit comments in an attempt to embarrass the affable undecided voter.
Gawker may be preparing a lawsuit against tech entrepreneur and billionaire Peter Thiel after he funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against the news outlet earlier this year, resulting in the company and its founder filing for bankruptcy.
Left-wing news and commentary site Mic.com has sabotaged a gay military fundraiser that was due to take place at Lucian Wintrich’s upcoming pro-Trump art show, #DaddyWillSaveUs.
Former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio expressed desire to post the entire Hulk Hogan sex tape, which he is still in possession of, after Gawker was ordered by the courts to pay $140 million in damages to Hogan for posting a clip from the tape in 2012.
Former wrestling champion Hulk Hogan has bought a new $1.6 million beach house after winning $140 million in his lawsuit against Gawker earlier this year.
Palmer Luckey’s girlfriend deactivated her Twitter account after Gizmodo, Gawker’s technology vertical, published a hit piece that delved into her private life, personal Instagram pictures, and exposing her political views, despite her lack of newsworthiness.
Gawker Media employees at sites such as Deadspin and Jezebel are reportedly unhappy with their new owners, Univision, who have deleted several articles involved in ongoing litigation cases.
Ashley Feinberg — a Gawker employee now forced to post on the company’s sports site Deadspin — says that Hillary Clinton’s speech targeted the same audience as National Review’s “Against Trump” special issue.
Former wrestling champion Hulk Hogan has won another match against Gawker founder Nick Denton, after a judge sided with Hogan to deny Denton’s bid to lease his $4.25 million Manhattan apartment.
In a stunning moment of self awareness, a former editor for defunct blog Gawker has openly admitted, “We were bullies.”
Many in the chattering class are clutching their pearls this month as Gawker Media sells its assets to Univision and shudders its flagship brand, Gawker.com. They’ve been demonizing Peter Thiel for secretly financing Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea’s successful lawsuit against the company after it published a secretly recorded sex tape.
The founder of the now-defunct gossip blog Gawker is upset.
All operations at Gawker.com have ceased from today, after Univision purchased the controversial news outlet last week and announced the main site’s closure.
How a politically inexperienced band of hobbyists brought a media empire to its knees.
The site, which developed a toxic reputation for gratuitous violations of privacy and wacky left-wing politics will be no more.
NEW YORK (AP) — Spanish-language broadcaster Univision won an auction Tuesday for Gawker Media, which was put on the block in the aftermath of a $140 million judgment against it in the Hulk Hogan invasion-of-privacy case.
Writing in the New York Times, Peter Thiel stated that the humbling of Gawker is just the beginning of the battle for online privacy.
Grassroots anti-Gawker group “Jail Denton” have started a boycott on all Ziff Davis advertisers, after it was reported that the umbrella media company was set to purchase the bankrupt and controversial Gawker Media.
Posters calling for Gawker Media founder Nick Denton to be jailed have sprung up around New York City.
Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Gawker CEO Nick Denton implored Peter Thiel to accept his victory and stop targeting the company’s employees.