#Gawker Is Shutting Down For a Second Time

#Gawker Is Shutting Down For a Second Time

Gawker Is Shutting Down For a Second Time Gawker appears to be shutting down for a second time.  After first shutting down following a lawsuit from wrestler Hulk Hogan, the pop culture and satire website was acquired by Bustle Digital Group CEO Bryan Goldberg in the summer of 2018 for $1.35 million. Bustle relaunched the…

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#G/O Media buys business news site Quartz

#G/O Media buys business news site Quartz

“G/O Media buys business news site Quartz” G/O Media, the owner of a handful of sites that once belonged to Gawker Media, announced Thursday it is scooping up the business news site Quartz. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Quartz co-founder and CEO Zach Seward told employees in a memo Thursday that he agreed…

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#Ex-Gawker editor withdraws lawsuit against Daily Beast

#Ex-Gawker editor withdraws lawsuit against Daily Beast

“#Ex-Gawker editor withdraws lawsuit against Daily Beast” ­­­An editor who got tapped to lead an ill-fated effort to revive Gawker last year has withdrawn a defamation suit against an ex-employee — but claims she’s being intimidated by lawyers.  Carson Griffith — who in January 2019 got accused in a lengthy Daily Beast exposé of making…

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#Tim Cook killed a Apple TV show about Gawker: report

#Tim Cook killed a Apple TV show about Gawker: report

“#Tim Cook killed a Apple TV show about Gawker: report” Tim Cook reportedly put the kibosh on an Apple TV production based on the notoriously snarky gossip website Gawker. The Apple CEO — who, along with his company, had been a frequent target of the now-defunct website — learned about the production and the project…

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