Jimmy Kimmel was filling in for Larry King on CNN back 2007 when he got angry that the site added a “ Gawker Stalker” map that updated in real time to its celebrity sightings section. It gleefully invaded privacy, as in a 2010 anonymous account of a one-night stand with conservative Tea Party activist Christine O’Donnell. The site was often silly yet insightful, tracking TGI Friday’s endless appetizers and tricking Donald Trump into retweeting Mussolini. Hogan was awarded $140 million and is essentially the reason why the site is going dark.Īlso Read: What Gawker Media Acquisition Means for Univision Thiel decided he wanted revenge and financed Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. There are at least two moments that owner Nick Denton has cause to regret: outingSilicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel as gay, and posting a Hulk Hogan sex tape.
Gawker once published, and then removed, a post about a married Conde Nast executive attempting to pay for a gay porn star in Chicago back in 2015. Tommy Craggs, former executive editor, and Max Read, the ex-editor-in-chief, quit their jobs because of they didn’t agree with the decision to remove the story. Univision won an auction last week to buy Gawker Media for $135 million and will retain the digital media conglomerate’s other assets while shutting down operations for the controversial namesake website. It gave a voice to the unemployed, decided what was OK to put in a salad, unmasked internet trolls and provided million of readers with a daily escape.Īlso Read: Gawker Says 'F- It' on Last Day in Operation Gawker did not discriminate when it came to embarrassing people, exposing public figures and mocking everyone.
It found humor to the end with a Friday story headlined, “The only thing that would make us feel better is if you sent us Trump’s tax returns” and a Monday morning “F– it” message. Gawker blurred the lines of journalism, ethics and celebrity gossip and became a must-read destination for a generation of educated, sarcastic and curious readers. But that approach also earned Gawker enemies, and those enemies brought the site down. is closing today after 14 years of making the Internet smarter, snarkier and more brutally honest.
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