The party, which at times had the feeling of a giddy wake, drew in past and present journalists from its flagship site, as well as those from the offshoots Gizmodo (Gawker for gadgets), Jalopnik (Gawker for car culture), Jezebel (the Gawker "ladyblog"), Deadspin (Gawker for sports), Lifehacker (Gawker for productivity tips) and Kotaku (Gawker for video games).
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Gawker Media's path to bankruptcy began with a decision by Gawker.
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What's tough about defending Gawker here is, well, defending Gawker here.
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The post on Gawker noted that near-term plans for Gawker.
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Once a popular and provocative flagship site of Gawker Media, Gawker.
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If Ziff Davis acquires gawker media, do they get rid of Gawker?
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Founded in 2003 as one of Gawker Media's first two blogs, Gawker.
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Univision took down other Gawker articles that were involved in litigation. Gawker.
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Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker was bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel. Gawker.
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Univision's offer will encompass all seven of Gawker Media's sites, including Gawker.
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Previously, Hogan successfully sued Gawker Media, CEO Nick Denton and then-Gawker.
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Founded in the early 2000s as one of Gawker Media's first two blogs, Gawker.
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Last week, in advance of the Gawker Media auction, I interviewed Elizabeth Spiers, Gawker.
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The closing of Gawker represents a victory for Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who bankrolled the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that pushed Gawker Media into bankruptcy and, by extension, turned Gawker.
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Who himself got his job at Gawker by starting a blog specifically designed to torture Gawker!
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To head that off, Thiel bid for the remaining Gawker assets — including the flagship domain Gawker.
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In addition to the Hogan trial troubles, Gawker Media's editorial chief and the editor of Gawker.
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When you guys acquired Gawker Media sites, now you guys call it Gizmodo Media Group, gawker.
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The resulting judgment in a Florida courtroom was large enough to send Gawker into bankruptcy. Gawker.
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But Gawker attorney Michael Sullivan reiterated his claim that Gawker is protected by the First Amendment.
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When Gawker Media editorial workers successfully reached a contract agreement at the end of February, Gawker.
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"I think that people are going to find that they miss Gawker, even the people who hated Gawker," said Hamilton Nolan, a writer for Gawker who has worked there for eight years.
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Univision won an auction for Gawker Media in August but decided it wouldnot continue to operate Gawker.
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Would-be buyers were interested in Gawker Media's other properties, but viewed Gawker itself as a problem.
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Thiel is right when he said it's not for him to decide the fate of Gawker - that if people want to see more of the Gawker brand of media, they'll rally around Gawker.
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Thiel is right when he said it's not for him to decide the fate of Gawker — that if people want to see more of the Gawker brand of media, they'll rally around Gawker.
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As part of the settlement, Gawker Media has agreed to delete three stories from the archive of Gawker.
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Univision won an auction for Gawker Media in August but decided it would not continue to operate Gawker.
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In March, the former professional wrestler won a Florida jury trial against Gawker Media, Denton and former Gawker.
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Gawker Media and legal experts, meanwhile, have said that Gawker (and Denton) are likely to win on appeal.
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Now Hulk Hogan is blaming Gawker for racist remarks he made on another sex tape, which Gawker never had.
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Now, Hulk Hogan is blaming Gawker for racist remarks he made on another sex tape, which Gawker never had.
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Gawker Media was ordered to pay $15 million; the company's founder, Nick Denton, was assessed $10 million; and Gawker.
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Now all that's over, right, with the Hulk Hogan suit against Gawker and the craziness that that created. Gawker.
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Gawker Media was ordered to pay $15 million; the company's founder, Nick Denton, was assessed $0003 million; and Gawker.
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Along with its flagship Gawker site, Gawker Media also publishes consumer websites Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Deadspin and Jezebel.
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The decision comes just two days after Univision won an auction to acquire Gawker Media, the parent company of Gawker.
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While Gawker plans to sell a minority stake to Columbus Nova, the deal requires the approval of Gawker Media's shareholders.
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But in many ways, Gawker Media — which included Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jezebel, Lifehacker and several other sites in addition to Gawker.
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Outgoing Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton informed staffers of the website's fate Thursday afternoon, according to an article on Gawker.
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A bankruptcy judge approved Univision's winning bid in August following a bankruptcy auction and Gawker Media said its website Gawker.
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Harder is most well-known for representing professional wrestler Hulk Hogan who sued Gawker Media LLC, which previously owned Gawker.
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He also secretly funded the sex tape lawsuit that drove Gawker Media into bankruptcy and ultimately forced Gawker to close.
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Gawker parent company Gawker Media was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection when a Florida court ordered it to pay $140 million in damages to Hulk Hogan, who had sued Gawker for publishing his sex tape.
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Gawker Media was ordered to pay $15 million, Gawker founder Nick Denton was ordered to pay $10 million and A.J. Daulerio, the then-editor of the Gawker site Deadspin that posted the video, was ordered to pay $100,000.
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In the narrow case of Peter Thiel being pissed off at Gawker, I think Thiel is right and Gawker was wrong.
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Gawker Media, the publisher behind popular websites like Gizmodo, LifeHacker, Jezebel and Gawker, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday.
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Denton and former Gawker staffer A.J. Daulerio each put up shares in Gawker to be held as part of the stay.
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In the wake of Gawker, a lot of people were tracing the lineage between Punch and then you guys and Gawker.
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If Thiel keeps paying for people to sue Gawker, sooner or later the legal costs will drive Gawker out of business.
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A Gawker source says that Gamergate bled $7 million from Gawker Media in 2014 by convincing advertisers to pull their campaigns.
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Worried that Thiel would take down Gawker posts, a group of former Gawker employees launched a campaign to buy the assets themselves.
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On Thursday, less than 48 hours after Univision's $135 million bid won an auction for Gawker Media, the bond finally broke. Gawker.
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Gawker begat Gizmodo begat Wonkette begat Valleywag and everywhere a Gawker writer went, the walls of tradition were assailed and sometimes fell.
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Gawker and Mr. Bollea settled their case this week for $31 million, but not before Gawker was forced into bankruptcy and sold.
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Gawker founder and CEO Nick Denton says that in spite of last week's bankruptcy filing, things are just fine at Gawker Media.
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The group says that if it doesn't raise enough money to buy the old Gawker site it still plans to preserve the Gawker archives and launch a new publication: "We're bringing this back whether we have the Gawker URL or not."
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Acquiring a company like Gawker after what Gawker went through, in a bankruptcy court, for $135 million, is not a decision you rush.
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In addition to Gawker proper, Gawker Media is also the parent company for the sites Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Jezebel, io9, Deadspin, and Jalopnik.
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And while Gawker Media's former employees are indemnified from future litigation in regard to their old work at the company, any deal for Gawker.
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While Univision acquired most of Gawker Media's sites last year (and renamed them as the Gizmodo Media Group), the deal didn't include Gawker itself.
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What is that experience like when you get dropped into that world and you run all of Gawker because you are all of Gawker.
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Gawker settled with Hulk Hogan for $31 million, ending a years-long fight that led to the media company&aposs bankruptcy, the shutdown of Gawker.
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In theory, it could settle the case, but Thiel has made it clear he doesn't want a payout from Gawker — he wants to punish Gawker.
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For one, the film shows how billionaire Peter Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan's privacy case against Gawker Media over a sex tape Gawker put online.
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Gawker filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year in order to avoid paying $140 million to Hulk Hogan, whose sex tape Gawker published in 2013.
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The Bollea Vs. Gawker Media civil suit, in which the wrestler Hulk Hogan is seeking $100 million in damages from Gawker, began on March 7.
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On May 10, Mr. Ayyadurai sued Gawker Media, Nick Denton, the company's founder and majority owner, and two Gawker journalists, John Cook and Sam Biddle.
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At the same time, the lawsuit had real consequences, with Gawker ultimately declaring bankruptcy, selling to Univision and shutting down operations on its flagship Gawker website.
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This brings the total owed by Gawker and Denton to $140 million, which approaches the entire $200 million net worth of both Gawker and Denton's assets.
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Thiel paid the lawyer who worked for Hulk Hogan in his suit against Gawker Media, eventually winning a massive judgement that led Gawker to declare bankruptcy.
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Gawker Media case that transfixed the media beginning in 2012, when Gawker published a clip from a sex tape of the wrestler and his friend's wife.
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Hogan, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, had originally sought $100 million from Gawker Media, Gawker publisher and founder Nick Denton, and former editor A.J. Daulerio.
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Thiel never forgave Gawker for outing him, and in recent years he has bankrolled the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that pushed Gawker Media into bankruptcy this year.
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Vanity Fair had already been my dream job, absolutely, so after two years running Gawker and I still to this day am the longest-running Gawker.
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Gawker Media's Nick Denton, left, and A.J. Daulerio, right, listens to testimony during Hulk Hogan's lawsuit trial against Gawker Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Hogan sued Gawker over the publication of one of his sex tapes — unlike other Hogan tapes, he does not use racial slurs in the clip Gawker posted.
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And his lawyers were Charles Harder, who had handled the Hulk Hogan case that ultimately completely bankrupted Gawker and took down Gawker over the Hulk Hogan sex tapes.
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"I never appreciated Valleywag and some of the other Gawker properties to the point that I think that in a way Gawker got what it deserved," he said.
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Thiel has acknowledged he funded lawsuits against Gawker, including spending about $10 million on one by wrestler Hulk Hogan that led to a $140 million judgment against Gawker.
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In theory, Gawker and Denton are in this position because Gawker published excerpts of a 2012 sex tape featuring Hogan and the wife of one of his friends.
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Under terms of the proposed settlement, which needs to be approved by a bankruptcy court: Gawker is also removing stories about Hogan, Ayyadurai and Terrill from the Gawker.
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A Gawker investigation on Trump's hair inflicted emotional distress Gawker notes how the "defamatory" statements in question are actually culled from Ivari's own marketing materials and public records.
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Gawker Media went bankrupt in 2016 after a $140 million legal judgment against it in an invasion-of-privacy case brought by the former wrestler Hulk Hogan. Gawker.
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Attorneys for Gawker had asked the court for the same protections for Denton that Gawker automatically received when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, including a shield from lawsuits.
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Gawker has held that the post is protected by the First Amendment, and that Hogan's complaint is undermined because, Gawker claims, he has publicly boasted about his sex life.
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Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, in March won a $140 million jury verdict against Gawker in a privacy lawsuit stemming from a sex tape Gawker had published.
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Mr. A unlocks that gurative briefcase on the table: "Okay, I know what you think about Gawker, here's what I am proposing…" Thiel had spoken about Gawker many times.
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Yes, pretty much, though it's possible they can try to convince Gawker Media and U.S. bankruptcy court judge Stuart Bernstein that there's no possible way they can operate Gawker.
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Ayyadurai had also sued and settled with Gawker, and in his case against Techdirt, he's represented by Harder Mirell & Abrams, the same firm that brought Bollea's case against Gawker.
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If Bollea had reached a settlement with Gawker, it would have reflected that balance, punishing Gawker for its violation of Bollea's privacy but allowing it to continue to exist.
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Gawker filed a separate lawsuit in bankruptcy court on Friday asking the judge to extend the bankruptcy court protections to Denton, Daulerio and other former and current Gawker employees.
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Former Editor-in-chief Max Read wrote an article pondering what went wrong at Gawker, if anything: Gawker wasn't the first publication to treat gossip as an intellectual pursuit.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, content marketing and communications firm Didit has formally placed a bid of $1.13 million for Gawker Media, which includes the rights to the Gawker.
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Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and Facebook board member who secretly bankrolled lawsuits to undermine Gawker Media, said he might turn the now-defunct news and gossip website Gawker.
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Now a group of former Gawker employees calling themselves the Gawker Foundation has launched a Kickstarter campaign to buy the old domain and relaunch with a nonprofit, membership-funded model.
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Executives at Univision, the company that bought the beleaguered Gawker Media, voted on Friday to delete six contentious posts from the company's network of websites, Gawker Media site Gizmodo reported.
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"Gawker can burn in hell," the TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington said on Twitter, though he also called Mr. Thiel "cowardly" for not being open about financing the lawsuits against Gawker.
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The ruling is still being appealed, but if it's upheld it could put Gawker Media — which publishes sites like Jezebel and Gizmodo in addition to Gawker itself — out of business.
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Less than a decade later, the Gawker name morphed into a full blown media empire, incorporated by Denton alone and encompassing a network of blogs outside of the original Gawker.
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At least some writers at Gawker didn't always like the idea of making a big story out of someone's sexual orientation, as Tracy Moore covered for Gawker Media's own Jezebel.
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And lastly, for Peter, Terry, their legal team and those who were offended, annoyed and insulted by Gawker over the years, I guess you can say they won, too. Gawker.
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The company added it saw Gawker brands Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Kotaku bolstering its consumer tech and gaming positions, while other Gawker sites Jalopnik, Deadspin and Jezebel would strengthen its lifestyle portfolio.
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And if too much of Gawker survives, Mr. Thiel, with an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion, indicates he will keep financing anti-Gawker lawsuits to kill off whatever is left.
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Gawker had paired the original post with a lengthy article with commentary about the attraction of sex tapes, and when it was ordered to take it down later, Gawker initially refused.
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For the past two days, Gawker Media and Hulk Hogan have been duking it out in a Florida court over a sex tape featuring Hogan that Gawker published back in 2013.
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Gawker's bankruptcy represents a devastating blow not only for Gawker founder Nick Denton and the site's other investors but also to the sensationalistic and privacy-hostile style of journalism Gawker represents.
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But Mr. Holden said the "ethos" of Gawker — which prided itself on a wry, pirate-ship approach to reporting — would also be considered in determining new ownership of the Gawker name.
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For the Gawker Media rank-and-file, the uncertainty means (as one staffer put it to Recode) it's "open season" on Gawker employees for other publishers looking to hire away talent.
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Yesterday, Gawker wrote about receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the lawyer Thiel enlisted in his anti-Gawker campaign, asking for the takedown of an investigation of Donald Trump's hair.
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The authors suggest that Thiel was also behind the (now settled) class action suit from ex-Gawker interns, and that Thiel may have actually tried to buy Gawker at one point.
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Gawker, which was previously the provocative flagship site of Gawker media, declared bankruptcy in 2016 after losing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit to ex-pro wrestler Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan.
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I did not end up taking a job at Gawker, but did eventually work at Gawker Media for five years, mostly writing for Jezebel, before leaving in October to work for VICE.
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Tom Scocca, an editor who was with Gawker Media for over six years and now runs the blog Hmm Daily, said in an interview that the many journalists who had left Gawker.
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The always-controversial Gawker was thrust into bankruptcy earlier this year after billionaire Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's sex-tape lawsuit, securing a $140 million judgment and single-handedly taking down Gawker.
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Gawker filed for bankruptcy mainly to shield itself from a $140 million judgment from former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, who won the judgment after Gawker published an excerpt of his sex tape.
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If Gawker Media is, as Thiel claims, so serially guilty of egregious invasions of privacy against powerless individuals, why is he throwing his lot in with a lawyer intent on punishing Gawker for writing about Edward Ivari, the man who may have restored Trump's hair to greatness, or Meanith Huon, whose coverage on Gawker "bolstered" his reputation?
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One of them was filed on behalf of Shiva Ayyadurai, whose claim to have invented email has been challenged by several outlets, including The Washington Post and Gawker—but only Gawker was sued.
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Denton said he's now refocusing on the sale of Gawker.
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Gawker lost the trial and was forced to declare bankruptcy.
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TRUMP: I might not have to, based on Gawker. Right?
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It's been a tumultuous week on the Internet, with Gawker.
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HE OF COURSE HAS BEEN FUNDING A LAWSUIT AGAINST GAWKER.
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Instead, Gawker violated my privacy and cashed in on it.
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Gawker has made it so it's available everywhere and forever.
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Peter Thiel has reportedly made an offer to buy Gawker.
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Gawker in 2007 had published an article about Thiel's homosexuality.
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But Thiel says he's funding other lawsuits against Gawker, too.
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Keenan: Yeah, that's what's been communicated to Gawker Media staffers.
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He wanted not a settlement, but the destruction of Gawker.
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"There have been so many incarnations of Gawker," Spiers said.
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In an open letter he published late today on Gawker.
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Though Gawker lost this round, it's already preparing an appeal.
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HULK HOGAN SLAMMING GAWKER MEDIA IN HIS SEX TAPE CASE.
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Gawker Media's fate is very much up in the air.
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Thiel had been funding the lawsuit anonymously against Gawker Media.
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The hack "was easy, very easy," the informant told Gawker.
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Do I agree with every story Gawker chooses to publish?
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That decision essentially became redundant once Gawker filed for bankruptcy.
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He was also singled out repeatedly for criticism by Gawker.
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Gawker posted a brief excerpt from the tape in 2012.
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Next to speak was Gawker Media's executive editor, John Cook.
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For Gawker, the sale is the end of an era.
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Lots of people aren't fans of Gawker, for understandable reasons.
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A loss could put Gawker out of business, he added.
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Gawker did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Due Diligence Report on Otto and Anthony Levandowski by Gawker.
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Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy three months later.
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Deadspin, originally a Gawker affiliate, delighted in unearthing Jeter's foibles.
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How will Gawker react to the growing power of Facebook?
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Still, the Hogan video represented a new low for Gawker.
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Is that ... What's the thing that is no longer Gawker?
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Ziff Davis had originally offered $90 million for Gawker Media.
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Bustle and its chief executive, Bryan Goldberg, acquired the Gawker.
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This sounds similar to what Gawker Media announced last fall.
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Remember his secrecy around funding the Gawker lawsuits for years?
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"Gawker did a lot of bad things," he told me.
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Last week, Gawker and Hogan reached a $31 million settlement.
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Were you No. 2 in the order of Gawker editors?
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Wait a minute, that sounds like the old Gawker ethos.
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You went to run the Gawker Media lady site. Yes.
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But it's fair to say that Gawker had its day in court — with a lot of caveats over jurisdiction and judge and jury, Gawker supporters would say — and that the company lost the case.
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The digital asset is part of our overall digital portfolio, which as you said includes the site formerly known as Gawker, assets ... Is that what we're going to call it, formerly known as Gawker?
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He has borne a grudge against Gawker ever since it revealed that he was gay in 303, and in recent years he has been secretly funding the Hogan lawsuit and others against Gawker Media.
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On Wednesday, Gawker also settled two other suits — brought by Shiva Ayyadurai and Ashley Terrill, contesting Gawker articles about them — and will pay their plaintiffs $750,000 and $500,000, respectively, according to Gizmodo and the Times.
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If Dietrick's final words go down as the last public statement from the leadership of Gawker as an independent company, it's appropriate that they centered on Denton and the dogmatic principles he instilled in Gawker.
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Holguin, the chief operating officer of Fusion Media Group, is currently serving as the interim CEO of Gawker Media; Grant, Fusion's general counsel of the same division, is serving as Gawker Media's interim general counsel.
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Here's a tiny, tiny wrinkle in the ongoing Gawker Media auction: LittleThings, a digital publisher that specializes in Facebook-friendly content, says it wants to buy Jezebel, one of the sites owned by Gawker Media.
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And even though most of the Gawker brands are expected to survive (and in Denton's view, flourish in spite of) the company's imminent sale, Denton acknowledges that a buyer might not want the flagship Gawker.
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Here are some suggestions on how to fill the Gawker void.
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But the business logic behind the decision seems pretty clear: Gawker.
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In 2012, Gawker published detailed stories exposing his alleged sexual misconducts.
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Denton called the trial a "sham" in a statement on Gawker.
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Earlier today, Gawker Media Group (GMG) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Gawker is not publishing the Pentagon Papers or the Panama Papers.
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Gawker and shows we really might be in a new era.
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QUESTION: There was an article on Gawker, I believe, about it.
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Gawker Media, Gizmodo's parent company, has also entered such a deal.
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The tape was made five years before Gawker published their clip.
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Gawker publisher Nick Denton said the website would appeal the verdict.
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The video was viewed 2.5 million times on the Gawker site.
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Harder's law firm threatened Gawker Media over this story in June.
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The firm's managing director, Jason Epstein, will join Gawker Media's board.
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Keenan: You're referring to the executive suite of Gawker Media, correct?
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It is part of what is appealing to me about Gawker.
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So it was not the Gawker that it was before. Okay?
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So how did Holiday end up writing about Gawker and Hogan?
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The post was picked up by Gawker and went wildly viral.
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After a bankruptcy auction, Gawker Media has a new owner, Univision.
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If Thiel is successful in destroying Gawker, he will martyrize it.
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HAVE YOUR STANDARDS CHANGED AND WOULD GAWKER PUBLISH THAT VIDEO TODAY?
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"Jerry Hall to Wed a Toad," reads the headline on Gawker.
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I've certainly not been a fan of everything Gawker has done.
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The letter continues a legal battle between Mr. Harder and Gawker.
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Like Peter Thiel wanted to get rid of Gawker, ultimately. Right.
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So when you saw Gawker go through this, and then lose.
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But he currently represents clients in two additional suits against Gawker.
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Facebook would not comment on his involvement in the Gawker suit.
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Max Read, the former editor of Gawker, will lead Select All.
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Goldberg and Gawker did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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The end of Gawker Media as an independent company is near.
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Gawker Media was reportedly sold to Univision at auction on Tuesday.
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But even if you avoided Gawker, you can't escape its influence.
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In 2007, I was outed by the online gossip blog Gawker.
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In my case, Gawker decided to make those choices for me.
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At first he simply requested that Gawker take down the video.
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Check out this rundown of the most popular 2015 Gawker posts.
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The Hogan lawsuit is not the only lawsuit Gawker is facing.
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The six-person jury assessed Gawker $15 million in punitive damages.
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In the meantime, Gawker might have to post a large bond.
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Lawyers for Gawker will most likely appeal any decision against them.
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He argues that Gawker violated his privacy in publishing the excerpt.
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What few understand is that Gawker defined the modern media landscape.
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After Gawker won that round, Hogan went through the Florida courts.
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Gawker published part of a sex tape featuring Hogan in 2012.
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A jury said Gawker must pay Bollea more than $100 million.
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The case could severely damage Gawker, which is appealing the verdict.
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Denton owns about 30 percent of Gawker, according to the lawsuit.
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The relaunch of Gawker under Goldberg's leadership has been postponed indefinitely.
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Gawker shuts down — with help from Silicon Valley titan Peter Thiel
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Billionaire venture capitalist and Trump adviser Peter Thiel might purchase Gawker.
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The snideness of the Gawker team made a bad situation worse.
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He eventually settled for $31 million, and Gawker settled for bankruptcy.
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Occasionally, there were naysayers: gossip items in Gawker and Page Six.
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Univision will get all seven of Gawker Media's sites, including Gawker.com.
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In 2016, Univision bought almost all of the Gawker Media sites.
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On yesterday's new episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Gawker.
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Publicly, some Gawker Media employees are handling this with characteristic bemusement.
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A 2007 article published by Gawker, "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people," and a series of articles about his friends and others that he said "ruined people's lives for no reason" drove Mr. Thiel to mount a clandestine war against Gawker, funding a team of lawyers to find and help "victims" of the company's coverage to mount cases against Gawker.
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Perhaps the wildest moment — and most damning as far as Gawker is concerned — came when the jury hearing the lawsuit brought by Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) heard from former Gawker editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio.
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The network is also rumored to be in talks to purchase Gawker Media, and sources close to the matter said Univision talked to Gawker about doing Spanish-language versions of some of its sites like Gizmodo.
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These sites had hollowed out a space below Gawker just as Gawker, with great reluctance, had become a real media outlet, one large, rich, and slow-footed enough to be held to account — and taken down.
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Tech investor, billionaire and Donald Trump-backer Peter Thiel has been locked in a legal battle by proxy with Gawker Media that amounts to a First Amendment test which could potentially put Gawker out of business.
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The first answer is relatively simple: It didn't make any sense for Hogan to take Gawker to court, because Gawker was willing to pay Hogan millions — I've heard as much as $10 million — to go away.
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"One thing that has always been true about Gawker is that it was an amazing incubator of talent," said Adam Moss, the editor in chief of New York magazine, which has hired many former Gawker journalists.
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After a Florida jury awarded Hulk Hogan over $100 million in damages for Gawker posting a sex tape of the wrestler, Gawker has been hit with more lawsuits, all of which involve Hogan's attorney, Charles Harder.
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"I think that we like to embrace the gonzo and that Gawker was an inheritor of that gonzo spirit that didn't originate with Gawker, but that they carried that mantle for a little while," Shachtman said.
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Others (myself included) see what Gawker has done over the years as a particularly extreme example of media irresponsibility, so it's generally hard to apply any worries about what happens to Gawker to other media outlets.
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It's also worth noting, as highlighted in the Gawker vs Hulk Hogan case, in which Gawker Media's HipChat conversations were subpoenaed for court, that your workplace chats may well one day be used as evidence against you.
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Gawker has made these arguments to the trial judge in the Hogan case - the same judge whose 2013 injunction was reversed by the state appeals court (and whom Gawker tried unsuccessfully to have removed from the case).
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Gawker might have been foolhardy, reckless and ultimately self-destructive, but it was also courageous, and with the ascent of frequent Gawker target Donald Trump to the presidency, courage in media is needed now more than ever.
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The ruling against Gawker could very well put it out of business.
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" At the time, Gawker said, "So we expect to be fully vindicated.
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On a recent episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, former Gawker.
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This is the kind of Gawker media post we would always do.
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And on some level, that might be a good thing for Gawker.
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I mean, before Gawker I was a buy-side tech equity analyst.
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Gawker isn't the only publication to be targeted by a disgruntled billionaire.
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Gawker has played that role in digital media from its earliest days.
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Gawker CEO and cofounder Nick Denton confirmed the news in a statement.
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Denton also said Gawker has evolved over the years, becoming more responsible.
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"Is your goal to bankrupt, buy, or wound Gawker Media?" he wrote.
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According to a Gawker statement provided to Mashable: This is getting ridiculous.
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I assume other publishers are talking to Gawker Media employees as well.
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Gawker is the media, and thus I reflexively find myself defending it.
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Thiel's appearance will also be of great interest to Gawker Media's employees.
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Whatever happens to Gawker, it's already changed digital media, experts told CNBC.
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Gawker is weighing whether to appeal the ruling, according to a source.
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" Gawker Media released a statement to PEOPLE reading, "This is getting ridiculous.
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Gawker founder Nick Denton was one of the biggest believers in this.
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Gawker initially appealed the decision before agreeing to pay Bollea $31 million.
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On Thursday, Univision bought the bankrupt Gawker Media Group, which includes Deadspin.
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But in a post Hulk Hogan/Gawker world, the analysis has changed.
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The first digital journalism staff to unionize was Gawker Media in 2015.
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Denton's future at Gawker with Univision as the owner is now uncertain.
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Besides, everyone knows that the good trolling was done on Gawker (RIP).
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Gawker referred to FundAnything as a "new crowdfunding scam" back in 2013.
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A spokesman for Thiel declined to comment on Omidyar's backing of Gawker.
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Jury selection in Hogan's civil case against Gawker began on Tuesday morning.
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Thiel's backing explains why Hogan refused three different settlement offers from Gawker.
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Rich Juzwiak, writing for Gawker in 2014, outlined Timberlake's varying responses clearly.
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Meanwhile, the Gawker website was acquired separately by Bustle owner Bryan Goldberg.
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The lawsuit, and two others against Gawker, was bankrolled by Peter Thiel.
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There was a time he looked to resolve things amicably with Gawker.
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Gawker founder Nick Denton issued a statement promising to appeal the ruling.
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This would all soon become moot — at least with respect to Gawker.
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Thiel made his feelings about Gawker known, comparing Valleywag to Al Qaeda.
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For example, in a videotaped deposition shown in court Wednesday, ex-Gawker.
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A representative for Gawker Media could not be immediately reached for comment.
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He also said Gawker, which operates seven websites, can stay in business.
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WE READ STORIES LIKE THE STORY THAT GAWKER PUBLISHED BACK IN 2012.
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Gawker obtained a private sex tape that motivated the Thiel-funded lawsuit.
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Peter Thiel may not be done with his revenge quest against Gawker.
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I mean, I wouldn't do Gawker but you can't pick your descendants.
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The Gawker case suggests that it is evolving in an odd direction.
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Hogan, 62, claims his privacy was violated when Gawker posted the clip.
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Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June of that year.
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Amanda Hale has been hired as the publisher of Gawker, Goldberg said.
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Gawker expects a sale to close by the end of the summer.
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"I might not have to, based on Gawker, right?" he reportedly said.
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As it stands, that penalty puts the future of Gawker in jeopardy.
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This is the world that Gawker predicted and took up arms against.
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It was also not clear whether Univision would hold on to Gawker.
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If you never willingly read Gawker, I can't say I blame you.
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Forbes magazine previously reported that Univision hade made an offer for Gawker.
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Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy earlier this month.
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Thiel's lawyers have objected to the currently ongoing sale process of Gawker.
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Bryan Goldberg's Bustle Digital Group bought the bones of Gawker and Mic.
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Gawker confirmed in April that it had been in talks with Univision.
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And Gawker exercises this freedom more aggressively than most other media organizations.
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Hogan's attorney, Charles Harder, is also leading two other lawsuits against Gawker.
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" The statement from Gawker adds: "There is still more to the story.
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Bollea won a $140 million judgment against Gawker, leading to its bankruptcy.
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Right-wing personality Mike Cernovich is bidding $500,000 in cash for Gawker.
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"It's almost tempting to interpret this as withering, devastating sarcasm," Gawker wrote.
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Lawyers for Gawker Media say they have strong grounds for an appeal.
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If Gawker wins, it could set a powerful precedent for online publishers.
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So, too, has an era of the web in which Gawker thrived.
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Gawker changed political reportage to a degree unmatched by Strunk and White.
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Univision has won the auction to acquire Gawker Media's websites and business.
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The very public unionization process at Gawker in 2015 sparked a movement.
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Gawker vowed to continue operating its seven websites during the bankruptcy process.
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Thiel's description of the legislation as the "Gawker Bill" is uncommon, however.
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Another of Mr. Thiel's contentious ideas was destroying Gawker, the online publisher.
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But, of course, it doesn't matter if Gawker was deplorable or not.
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The company includes the family of websites formerly known as Gawker Media.
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That same year, Univision also purchased what was left of Gawker Media.
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Gawker CEO Nick Denton vowed on Twitter that the company will survive.
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Harder previously represented former wrestler Hulk Hogan in his dispute against Gawker.
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Another of Mr. Thiel's contentious ideas was destroying Gawker, the online publisher.
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Sources: The Daily Beast, The New Yorker, Gawker, OK Magazine, Washington Post
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Gawker founder Nick Denton won't be going along on the ride either.
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The jury ordered Gawker Media to pay $15 million in punitive damages.
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The bond is where things could start to get tricky for Gawker.
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It also acquired U.S. internet publisher Gawker Media LLC for $135 million.
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By the time I actually started a gig at Gawker, I'd experienced so much of the culture of ennui and id that the Gawker I'd moved to New York for spoke to that I felt, well, ready (LOL).
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Thiel and the Gawker estate are currently engaged in a legal back-and-forth in which the estate is arguing that it should be able to open discovery into Thiel's role in financing the lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker.
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"Nick Denton, the company's outgoing CEO, informed current staffers of the site's fate on Thursday afternoon, just hours before a bankruptcy court in Manhattan will decide whether to approve Univision's bid for Gawker Media's other assets," Gawker reported.
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Gawker, the flagship Gawker Media site that was shuttered last month after Univision declined to purchase it, was frequently critical of BuzzFeed and other news outlets for deleting posts that met resistance from advertisers, readers, owners, and subjects.
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Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton joined Kara Swisher on stage at Vox Media's Code Conference next to an empty chair — reserved for Peter Thiel, who is involved in a lawsuit against Gawker and did not attend the conference.
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The Gawker Media founder wants to pay the wrestler more than $31 million to settle the sex tape privacy suit that bankrupted both Gawker and Denton and forced them to sell most of Denton's blogging empire to Univision.
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Bollea won his huge verdict against Gawker because the jury believed this video published by Gawker, while literally "true," was not about a "newsworthy" act by a public figure, but rather, a private act by a private person.
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On Friday, some Gawker employees remained hopeful that a new owner might mean a fresh start, but there was also perhaps a tacit acknowledgment that Gawker as everyone knew it could soon be a thing of the past.
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"Gawker is defending its First Amendment right to join an ongoing conversation about a celebrity when others are talking about it and the celebrity is talking about it," Gawker lawyer Seth D. Berlin told The New York Times.
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Thiel has also drawn criticism in recent years for his support of President Donald Trump and for secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media, which resulted in the company shutting down Gawker and selling the company's assets.
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"Gawker is now beginning the process of challenging the jury's verdict in a trial where key evidence was wrongly withheld and the jury was not properly instructed on the constitutional standards for newsworthiness," Gawker said in a statement.
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Denton argued that he played an integral role in Gawker Media's operations and sale process and that the distraction of the Hogan litigation would prevent him from devoting all of his energy to the Gawker Media sale process.
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A juror in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker shocked the courtroom on Monday by asking Emma Carmichael, current editor in chief of Jezebel and former managing editor of Gawker, whether she had ever slept with her bosses.
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In the last few weeks, the legal feud between Hulk Hogan and Gawker—which recently lost a $140 million lawsuit brought on by the wrestler, after Gawker published snippets of a Hogan-starring sex tape—has gotten deeply weird.
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The party may well end up serving not as a wake for Gawker, but as a send off for the man who founded Gawker Media and did not shy away from publicly defending — and occasionally apologizing for — its work.
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Gawker shut down in August 2016 after its owner, Gawker Media, filed for bankruptcy following a legal battle with Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea), who sued the site after it published a clip of his leaked sex tape.
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An adverse verdict is what Gawker was expecting, and the company plans to appeal, but even if Gawker prevails the need to post a bond equivalent to the full total of damages ordered will be a major financial burden.
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Here are some of the major details from the Gawker Media union agreement: Gawker Media employees have long maintained that part of the reason for collective bargaining was to help set employment standards for the entire digital media industry.
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Gawker was definitely in on the joke, but then Hulk Hogan was in on the joke and this was ... I think the Gawker people figured that eventually they would name some amount of money and make him go away.
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The site was founded in 2009 by Gawker alums Choire Sicha and Alex Balk, and while you could definitely hear echoes of the Gawker style, it soon established itself as a home for a much wider range of writing.
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Gawker Media founder Nick Denton arrives in a courtroom in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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As for Gawker, it disseminated a sex tape of a retired pro wrestler.
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The Gawker litigation will stand, or be struck down, on its constitutional merits.
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But the best tweet of the night goes to Gawker OG Emily Gould.
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If that does happen, it could still put Gawker in a difficult spot.
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Hulk Hogan just won Round One in his battle royale with Gawker Media.
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Gawker founder Nick Denton repeated that in a statement after the verdict reading.
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Gawker claimed Hogan's own speech concerning his sex life made the footage newsworthy.
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" And I said, "You know, Gawker has hundreds of people working for it.
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With its purchase of Gawker Media, Univision got a number of valuable assets.
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After Denton decided to pull the story, two Gawker editors resigned in protest.
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It's like what Nick Denton always talks about, the whole reason for Gawker.
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So either Gawker wins an appeal, eventually, or it files for bankruptcy protection.
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And then someone said, "I got an email," the guy at Gawker said.
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Hogan said in court that he did not watch the tape Gawker posted.
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The only problem is: In those three some odd years, Gawker had changed.
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Thiel's representatives also said that they contacted those administrating the sale of Gawker.
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When reached for comment, Gawker seemed to confirm the existence of the lawsuit.
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A 2007 story stating that Thiel is gay remains online in the Gawker.
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Amanda Hale, formerly of The Outline, is BDG's first Gawker hire so far.
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Gawker declared bankruptcy last year after a protracted court battle with Hulk Hogan.
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Publishing group Ziff Davis has bid to buy Gawker Media for $90 million.
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Gawker has argued its footage was newsworthy and protected by the First Amendment.
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Thiel cleverly referred to it by a lesser-known nickname, the Gawker Bill.
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Hamilton Nolan, Gawker's longest-tenured staffer, tweeted that "Gawker was good" on Thursday.
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IBTimes first reported that Gawker Media was looking for outside investment on Tuesday.
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We sold it more than 10 years before Nick wound up selling Gawker.
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That depends on whether they settle with Gawker, which is appealing the verdict.
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Gawker reported that journalists resisted, and several people were heard screaming on air.
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There was already a rebranding and a new mission for a new Gawker.
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Guccifer 2.0's claims were first reported by The Smoking Gun and Gawker.
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Barring a stunning reversal of fortunes, Hulk Hogan looks primed to beat Gawker.
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A jury awarded Hogan $140 million in March, a decision Gawker is appealing.
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Those lawsuits pushed Gawker to declare bankruptcy and put itself up for sale.
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PT to include Thiel's admission that he bankrolled Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker.
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The filing was signed by Gawker founder Nick Denton and president Heather Dietrick.
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Univision, Ziff Davis and Gawker did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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SORKIN: WALK THROUGH WHAT HAPPENED – THIS IS THE BUSINESS STORY OF GAWKER NOW.
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Hogan sued Gawker after the site published a clip of his sex tape.
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In other cases, Gawker has combined profit with spite to target conservative women.
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"It is not 'the Gawker bill' or the 'revenge porn bill,'" she said.
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God I hope tronc buys Gawker Is tronc pronounced like GIF or JIF?
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Gawker expressed confidence that it would win with a full submission on appeal.
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That apology was then removed, as well, though Gawker grabbed the relevant portion.
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Gawker Media, founder Nick Denton, and Daulerio all ended up filing for bankruptcy.
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Bustle Digital Group has named Dan Peres as editor-in-chief of Gawker.
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They rejected the notion that Gawker was entitled to any First Amendment protections.
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Gawker was purchased in July by Goldberg in an auction in bankruptcy court.
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These were defiant words after what has been a tumultuous month for Gawker.
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Gawker Media filed for Chapter 26 bankruptcy and put itself up for sale.
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The controversy involves emails from 2009 exhumed in a FOIA request by Gawker.
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Under Univision, Gawker will become a relatively small part of a large company.
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I, too, replied to all, and Gawker made fun of me for it.
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Unfortunately for Gawker, they had targeted someone who was determined to fight back.
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Mr. Denton started Gawker in his living room more than a decade ago.
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Up today: Gawker head honcho Nick Denton, Tinder CEO Sean Rad and more.
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Thiel has recently been funding a case Hulk Hogan has brought against Gawker.
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Gawker said its liabilities were estimated between $100 and $500 million, reported Reuters.
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O'Neal's career began with her writing for online publications like Splitsider and Gawker.
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Gawker and its investment bankers are now soliciting acquisition offers for the company.
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"We stand for free speech," Wong wrote on a subreddit published by Gawker.
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And Thiel isn't alone in experiencing this kind of treatment from Gawker firsthand.
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But before that, Gawker had a long history of outing people, including Thiel.
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And Gawker isn't the only publication to be targeted by a disgruntled billionaire.
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Peter Thiel, the technology billionaire, submitted a bid this week to purchase Gawker.
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Gawker published 1 minute and 50 seconds of the video without Hulk's permission.
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Unable to produce that amount, Gawker Media corporately and Denton personally declared bankruptcy.
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Thiel famously bankrolled a libel lawsuit that effectively bankrupted the gossip website Gawker.
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It was kind of a more elevated Gawker in a lot of ways.
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Additionally, it's hazy whether or not a bidder will continue to operate Gawker.
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Since the Univision acquisition, a stream of Gawker employees have left the websites.
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I was still being written about and trashed on Gawker all the time.
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Gawker picked it up, and multiple prominent feminists wrote articles in Dunham's defense.
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When asked about the lawsuit he funded against Gawker, which bankrupted the company and forced founder Nick Denton to put it up for sale, Thiel argued that the case was justified because Gawker did not practice journalism and often bullied people.
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" A statement to PEOPLE from Gawker Media read: "Gawker is now beginning the process of challenging the jury's verdict in a trial where key evidence was wrongly withheld and the jury was not properly instructed on the Constitutional standards for newsworthiness.
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I was informed that Felipe Holguin, the chief operating officer of Fusion Media Group, had been named interim CEO of Gawker Media, and Jay Grant, the general counsel of Fusion Media Group, had been named interim general counsel of Gawker Media.
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Hogan sued Gawker after the site published a clip of his sex tape and a blog post analyzing it; his lawsuit, as well as others against Gawker, have been funded by investor Peter Thiel, whose backing was only revealed recently.
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Gawker has what I would call a really healthy comment community because it's actually reasonable rational discourse going on, and I don't like snark aspect of Gawker or anything that's cynical, but I've got to say that is a functional community.
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N. Thiel has not said why he wants Gawker, though 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.
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For months, the Gawker Media owner and people around him had speculated that the pro wrestler had a wealthy backer footing the legal bill for his fight against Denton and Gawker, which had published an excerpt of a Hogan sex tape.
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Asked about the Gawker/Hulk Hogan scandal, Trump needed a little primer: But I press him about Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire who, earlier in the day, has admitted to funding the $140 million Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker.
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On the one hand, it's obvious that Gawker inculcated a more antagonistic, more suspicious tendency in the press, especially toward the most powerful people in politics, business and the media (see how Gawker pushed open the Bill Cosby story, for instance).
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The marketing company said it planned to re-brand Gawker as "Gawker For Good," reporting positive news and channeling 50 percent of net advertising revenue to non-profits selected by readers and the creators of the content on the site.
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By successfully filing for bankruptcy protection, Gawker Media is protected from handing over any money to Hogan, whose legal efforts against Gawker (among myriad others) are reportedly being financed by Peter Thiel, who wants to sue the company out of existence.
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Carmichael: no#hulkvsgawk #wtf (That's A.J. Daulerio, the former editor of Gawker who posted the sex tape that Hogan is suing over, and Gawker founder Nick Denton.) Carmichael replied with a simple, "No," and didn't seem rattled by the question.
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Spanish-language broadcaster Univision has bought Gawker Media in an auction for $2175 million.
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Spanish-language broadcaster Univision has bought Gawker Media in an auction for $21.4 million.
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Gawker Media didn't have $140 million, so the company was forced to declare bankruptcy.
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This case is not about words, and it isn't about Gawker reporting a story.
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"Gawker is putting the First Amendment in jeopardy by their actions," Houston tells PEOPLE.
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In May 2016, Harder won a $140 million settlement for Hulk Hogan against Gawker.
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But Univision may or may not keep Gawker Media running in its current form.
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Gawker eventually took the video down due to Hogan's lawsuit, although the post remains.
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But even if Gawker doesn't survive, the tone it set will remain, Lieb said.
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It was Gawker that asked why allegations against Bill Cosby weren't taken more seriously.
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Later, Gawker posted a tape of Hogan making allegedly racist remarks, spurring another suit.
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Gawker has hired investment banker Mark Patricof of Houlihan Lokey to lead the review.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Holden has been exploring the sale of Gawker.
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While rumors had been floating in media circles that Thiel could hypothetically buy Gawker.
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For years, Gawker and Deadspin were the only two websites I read every day.
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I chose to write about Gawker (and Deadspin), because they were my favorite websites.
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D'Souza's online résumé fails to mention his work with Thiel to covertly attack Gawker.
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Do you think whoever ends up buying the company will want to keep Gawker?
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Thiel bankrolled the lawsuit by wrestler Hulk Hogan against Gizmodo's parent company, Gawker Media.
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What's endangering Gawker is Thiel's endless resources, and his apparently limitless appetite for revenge.
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In May 2016, Harder won a $140 million settlement for Hulk Hogan against Gawker.
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In short order, Vanity Fair, Gawker and numerous other media sites repeated the story.
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It was this project for which Whisper originally hired former Gawker editor Neetzan Zimmerman.
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For years, our sister site, Gawker (RIP), catalogued the horror stories of Amazon workers.
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Thiel: Uh — not — uh — um — I've been involved in the Gawker case, nothing else.
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So, Kafka asked on the new podcast, is Andersen happy that he spawned Gawker?
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What did you expect Gawker Media's staffers to do when these posts were deleted?
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In its heyday, Gawker attracted 23 million visits in a month, according to Wikipedia.
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He want the total victory of eliminating Gawker from the face of the earth.
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"Oh, that's Doris," he blurted, with all the self-control of a celebrity gawker.
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Univision's offer for Gawker Media spanned all seven of its media properties, including Gawker.com.
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He described his role as broadly overseeing the portfolio of websites under Gawker media.
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His end game seems to be to put Gawker out of business for good.
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A Gawker attorney previously said a loss could put the website out of business.
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Denton's deposition touched on his thoughts on free speech and Gawker Media's journalistic ethics.
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Gawker had argued that the sex tape was newsworthy, and therefore appropriate to publish.
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The Gawker Bill does just that and is a step in the right direction.
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Suit brought by Hulk Hogan for a blog post Gawker put up years ago.
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Spy's DNA went to Gawker, Spy's DNA in some way is in John Oliver.
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I think Gawker went as far down that road as we've seen in America.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel — a technology venture capitalist — funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker and Denton.
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Yet Mr Thiel's behaviour still gives pause, particularly his promise of "deterrence" for Gawker.
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Gawker is appealing against the decision, but the award forced the company into bankruptcy.
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"And so Gawker's demise turns out to be the ultimate Gawker story," he said.
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As we're recording this, there's talk about who's going to actually own the Gawker.
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They condemn Mr Thiel for abandoning his libertarian principles and trying to gag Gawker.
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Gawker attorneys, however, questioned what the wrestler knew about cameras in his friend's house.
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Op-Ed Contributor I HAVE been attacked pretty much my entire career by Gawker.
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"We welcome the support at the appellate level," Gawker said in its own statement.
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" Gawker eventually took it down after he acknowledged what the video "was possibly rape.
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Gizmodo and io9's parent company Gawker Media Group is filing for Chapter 11.
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Gawker led coverage of these rumors in 2015 (and even as early as 2012).
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Gawker runs the story knowing that Hogan is planning to sue whoever runs it.
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The bidding is over and we should know soon who will own Gawker Media.
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But Gawker could end up being a small fish in a very large pond.
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"The loss of @Gawker is huge & terrible," Glenn Greenwald, the journalist, wrote on Twitter.
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Though I will mourn the loss of Gawker, I can understand those who won't.
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Farhad: It's intriguing to me that many of the people who work at Gawker.
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Thiel has acknowledged his grudge with Gawker began when it outed him as gay.
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Then she Googled Toback and found a Gawker article containing similar allegations against him.
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Billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel has agreed not to buy the assets of Gawker.
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" The post's headline was "This Is Why Billionaire Peter Thiel Wants to End Gawker.
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In a statement issued Friday, Gawker Media indicated it is already contemplating an appeal.
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Spiers left for New York magazine in 2003 but Denton continued to grow Gawker.
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In March, a jury sided with Bollea, levying $140 million in damages against Gawker.
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His initial effort in federal court to force Gawker to remove the posting failed.
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If Gawker wins, it could set a powerful precedent for the online publishing world.
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A moment later, after an objection from a lawyer for Gawker, Mr. Mirell persisted.
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An attorney for Gawker questioned Hogan about inconsistencies in his testimony and media interviews.
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Gawker maintained its stance that it will try the case again in appeals court.
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At the offices of Gawker, the Chartbeat dashboard was displayed on a giant screen.
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Today, Gawker founder and CEO Nick Denton said that he is considering the same.
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The post and headline have since been updated with additional context from Gawker Media.
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So it is, you would have bought the entire portfolio, I think minus gawker.
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Year: 2005Trapani was an early employee of Gawker Media under its founder, Nick Denton.
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After the trial court judge refused to reduce the verdict, Gawker immediately declared bankruptcy.
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The question in the case would be whether Gawker violated Hogan's right to privacy.
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Thiel had a personal grudge against Gawker because they publicly outed him in 2007.
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Gawker case, it stretches the idea of what people usually think of as charity.
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Gawker lost the suit, and the flagship website closed and the others were sold.
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And that's surely in the spirit of the transparency Gawker was founded to promote.
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After all, he managed to put Gawker out of business with the current laws.
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Gawker was ultimately shut down after the $140 million lawsuit fell in Hogan's favor.
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Again, sort of the perception of Gawker was everyone gets burnt out, spit out.
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Four days after a jury found that Gawker violated Hulk Hogan's privacy by posting clips from a sex tape featuring Hogan and his friend Bubba the Love Sponge Clem's wife—ultimately awarding Hogan $140 million—Gawker founder Nick Denton has broken his silence.
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So some expressed surprise Tuesday that Thiel appeared to attempt to re-christen the proposed law as the "Gawker Bill," since the bill itself has nothing to do with the media, or with former wrestler Hulk Hogan's case against Gawker, which Thiel bankrolled.
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Gawker Media outed Thiel's sexuality in 2007 As for why any moneyed Silicon Valley figure would spend millions of dollars to help Hogan, Forbes points not to any great friendship between the wrestler and an angel investor, but to Thiel's history with Gawker.
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DAVID BERMAN New York To the Editor: Re "PayPal Founder Is Said to Bankroll Hulk Hogan Suit Against Gawker" (Business Day, May 25): It has been hard recently to get away from the stories about Peter Thiel's funding of lawsuits against Gawker.
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Gawker Media Group has put itself up for sale (bids are due Monday afternoon) in part to satisfy the legal judgment of a unanimous jury that ruled against Gawker and assessed damages of $140 million, proving that there are consequences for violating privacy.
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" Mr. Turkel fired back, directing a technician to show an enlarged image of a June 22, 2009, Washington Post interview with Mr. Denton, in which the Gawker founder said that it was not part of the mission statement at Gawker "to do good.
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While the fate of Gawker is still unclear – last-minute Hail Mary media saves are the norm when it comes to online properties (even if it does gut the site) – what is clear is that Gawker as we once knew it is dead.
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The second round of the legal rumble between Gawker and Hulk Hogan has just begun.
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We're here with Elizabeth Spiers who among other things was the founding editor at Gawker.
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When people hear this, Gawker Media will have a new owner via bankruptcy court auction.
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And for better or worse, people remember, or will remember Gawker for its extreme posts.
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Gawker has outed others, including CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Shepard Smith of Fox News.
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In court, Hogan's lawyers sought to portray Gawker as an organization without a moral compass.
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In his suit, Hogan argues that Gawker violated his privacy by publishing the sex tape.
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So Gawker may very well have to look for additional funding just to keep going.
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Look, that story is still up on Gawker, it hasn't been retracted five years later.
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Thiel secretly bankrolled Hogan's invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker, and Hogan won in court.
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Thiel has accused Gawker of "[ruining] people's lives for no reason," according to the Times.
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Gawker case is important because it could set a new standard for newsworthiness and privacy.
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Maggie Shnayerson, whose reporting for Gawker basically won rights for Viacom permalancers, was out, too.
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Gawker published the same cell phone number, saying it was Trump's, way back in August.
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Sources close to Gawker said the opening bid was between $90 million and $100 million.
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Denton said his goal is to sell Gawker and its properties to the best buyer.
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Previously, lawyers for Thiel called the billionaire "the most able and logical purchaser" of Gawker.
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Smith first encountered Laymon via Gawker and pitched an essay to him not long after.
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After Gawker was killed by Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel, Deadspin was what I read.
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Gawker is known for running salacious stories, and Cerberus has a history of controversial investments.
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A Gawker staffer told me yesterday that Nick Denton compared his place at the co.
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At first, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, thought it an unlikely conspiracy theory.
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But in the case of Gawker Media, Mirell helped Harder, Thiel, and D'Souza destroy one. ●
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Hogan is alleging that Gawker broke this order and leaked a transcript of the tape.
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Lawyers for Thiel and the Gawker estate are due back in bankruptcy court on Thursday.
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But do they have to keep all seven Gawker Media sites once they own it?
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No. Ziff Davis, for instance, has already suggested that it doesn't want to run Gawker.
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For Gawker, Mr. Denton said, the deal concludes several months of meetings about outside investment.
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Perhaps the change stems, in part, from the famous 2016 verdict in Bollea v. Gawker.
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What got you interested in the Gawker story, and in making a documentary about it?
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Pending appeal, Gawker owes Hogan about $140 million as a result of losing the trial.
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Finally, the firm has brought on Zimmerman, the former Gawker editor, as VP of growth.
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From Trump jabs to Gawker jabs to Thomas Friedman jabs, here are the best entries.
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Kluwe has written for Deadspin, a sports blog owned by Gawker Media, in the past.
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Gawker attorneys also tried to raise doubt about whether the wrestler knew about the filming.
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But one big class of targets that Gawker went after were people in the media.
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Whether that's [former Gawker editor] A.J. Daulerio or Sam Biddle or Nick Denton or me.
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Both Gawker and Facebook are media entities, competing with one another for online ad revenue.
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I read that Ziff Davis put in a $90 million "stalking horse" bid for Gawker.
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Gawker also agreed to remove an article from its archive as part of the settlement.
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But Omidyar has no interest in buying a stake in Gawker itself, the person said.
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The New York Post first reported the news of Omidyar's latest push to support Gawker.
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It's a significant step for Gawker that could also set a standard for other outlets.
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Isaac: We believe, on the record, we believe in the future of Gawker Media Group.
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Too many others, as Gawker was, are misled by their own cynicism and virtue-signaling.
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And if Gawker is indeed "unique," then who is being deterred by its being destroyed?
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Gawker Media also fell victim to an attack, and hackers leaked staff and user passwords.
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First, Gawker has indemnified Denton, meaning that it has agreed to pay his legal tab.
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Gawker was either powerless, or it was a veritable Godzilla out to raze Silicon Valley.
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" Gawker published an article titled "Tell Us What You Know About Harvey Weinstein's 'Open Secret.
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Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday in New York's Southern District bankruptcy court.
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Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has already said that the company is ready to appeal.
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She modeled for Urban Outfitters, and was called a "New York Power Child" by Gawker.
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That quickly led to speculation that a Ziff Davis-owned Gawker Media could shutter Gawker.com.
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The open bidding process also means that theoretically anybody could buy Gawker — even Peter Thiel.
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Gawker clearly, in some ways they kind of invited that kind of hatred to them.
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Gawker was sued by Hulk Hogan for publishing a sex tape in which he featured.
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Gawker has become the trending content, covering itself like a celebrity or a trending meme.
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For years under Mr Denton's stewardship, such meagre conditions were sufficient for a Gawker post.
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If Gawker was writing about it, the assumption was, its indignation was by definition righteous.
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The basic argument of those on the tech side was that Gawker was singularly bad.
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Anyway, sure, Gawker had its day in court and it lost (and it is appealing).
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A Florida jury awarded Mr. Bollea $140 million, and Gawker has since filed for bankruptcy.
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Gawker had posted a 2007 article about Thiel entitled "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people."
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That could further fuel speculation that Mr. Denton himself would try to buy back Gawker.
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That brings the total that Hulk Hogan won from Gawker to a whopping $140.1 million.
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Univision acquired the Gizmodo Media Group properties from Gawker in a bankruptcy auction in 2016.
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The distaste Gawker provokes is largely a result of the world it inhabits and reflects.
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Gawker inspired the bill and is the best-known example of why we need it.
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"These things do pass," the former Deadspin and Gawker editor, A. J. Daulerio, told her.
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Gawker, based on interviews with Thiel, D'Souza (who is identified as Mr. A), and others.
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I spoke to Holiday about Thiel, Gawker, and the larger implications of the website's demise.
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Many openly discussed the court-supervised auction of Gawker scheduled to take place next week.
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A goodbye party planned for two journalists was turning into a goodbye party for Gawker.
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In 2012, Gawker obtained a Facebook contractor's bizarrely eclectic list of topics requiring careful scrutiny.
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If a bankruptcy judge approves the sale this week, Gawker will come under outside ownership.
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As the competition for attention was rewarding ever more exploitation, Gawker was leading the way.
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On the one hand, a Gawker property would lampoon someone barely in the public eye.
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After all, Thiel portrays his campaign against Gawker as a kind of public interest litigation.
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He also says no one has been willing to take on continuing operation of Gawker.
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Gawker argues that its decision to publish the excerpt is protected by the First Amendment.
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Hulk Hogan continues testifying today in his $20133 million invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Gawker.
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In fact, Gawker founder Nick Denton had predicted events would unfold like this last year.
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Someone who used to work for Gawker is penning a reaction piece for their Medium.
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The respondents saw Gawker, not Thiel, as the "big institution" stepping on the little guy.
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And that's something to worry about even if you think Gawker deserves what it's getting.
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Kevin Lee, the head of a marketing firm, Didit, also submitted a bid for Gawker.
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Denton's website aggregation company Gawker Media was bought by Univision for $135 million in 2016.
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Thiel and Ton-That had both received negative coverage on Gawker, per the Times report.
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Gawker in the courtroom looks in some ways like a dress rehearsal for Trump v.
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Gawker was told to pay fifteen million, Denton ten million, and Daulerio a hundred thousand.
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Hogan took Gawker Media to court and won a total of $140 million in March.
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The Spanish-language broadcaster Univision agreed earlier this week to buy Gawker for $135 million.
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The very public unionization process at Gawker in 2015 sparked a movement in digital media.
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"One of the things [Hogan] kept was an object for the Gawker trial," he continues.
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" At the end of the interview, Stephanopoulos asked: "Another billionaire, Peter Thiel, brought down Gawker.
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Did he do it in part because he was angry about being outed by Gawker?
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Until then, expect other Gawker writers to follow Biddle on his way to the exit.
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Nor had they prepared for the idea that a buyer would want to shutter Gawker.
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The WGA East is the union that represents both Gawker Media staffers and Vice writers.
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Until now, Gawker Media has been funding the Hulk Hogan legal expenses from general revenues and given the expenses of continuing to defend our First Amendment rights, the management of Gawker Media has concluded that additional financing should be locked in before the trial begins.
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World Premiere Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press / U.S.A. (Director: Brian Knappenberger) — The trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media pitted privacy rights against freedom of the press, and raised important questions about how big money can silence media.
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Gawker Media Executive Editor John Cook said in a memo to staffers, seen by Reuters, that the executives had voted on Friday to delete the six postings from Gawker Media sites: three from Deadspin, two from tech blog Gizmodo and one from women's website Jezebel.
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It is the first high-profile exit since Gawker announced it was entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, though both Biddle and Gawker Media editorial boss John Cook said that the decision was made well before the Hogan trial verdict or the Friday filing.
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On Tuesday, a source said Gawker founder Nick Denton may file for personal bankruptcy this week.
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Week one of Hulk Hogan's versus Gawker is in the books, and it did not disappoint.
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"In the meantime, Gawker would have to find some financial resources to keep afloat," she added.
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Hulk Hogan in tears after winning $22016 million in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker. pic.twitter.
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However, Gawker will likely try to use them to bolster its case for an inevitable appeal.
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So, like I said, Gawker will have a new owner, maybe Ziff Davis; maybe somebody else.
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"When we got into this thing with Gawker, almost everybody backs down from them," Hogan said.
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Thiel later said that he did so because Gawker violated his privacy by reporting on him.
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Gawker tried to have the case dismissed, claiming the First Amendment shielded it from Hogan's suit.
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The end of Gawker is also the end of an era in the web's short history.
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At its best, Gawker punched up with a vengeance, holding powerful public figures and institutions accountable.
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The Spanish network paid $135 million for Gawker Media, and shuttered the company's flagship site, Gawker.com.
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Univision had bought the sites when they were part of Gawker Media in a bankruptcy sale.
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Thiel had covertly funded that lawsuit, and others against Gawker, to the tune of $10 million.
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Another said he was part of the conversation but did not recall any discussion about Gawker.
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Gawker Media is exploring strategic options, including a potential sale, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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"Everyone take a breath," Gawker, a media brand known for its edgy online content, told CNBC.
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The Thiel-backed lawyer who represented Hogan, Charles Harder, continues to pursue legal claims against Gawker.
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Hogan's judgment forced Gawker, known for its irreverent tone and gossipy posts, into bankruptcy in June.
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The lawsuit comes right on the heels of the resolution of Hogan's first lawsuit against Gawker.
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Gawker, a New York-based website specializing in media and celebrity news, is appealing the verdict.
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Gawker founder Nick Denton and former editor Albert J. Daulerio were found personally liable, as well.
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" Calacanis said that Gawker no longer "prints lies" because they have "retreated based on being sued.
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He also defended his financing of the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that drove Gawker out of business.
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Don't worry, other Gawker assets, like Deadspin and Jezebel, were already sold to Univision Holdings Inc.
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But even if Gawker was wrong to post those articles, Thiel's method of reprisal is dangerous.
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"The Real History of Cinco de Mayo" (Gawker Media Group), Graphic Animation by Elisa Solinas; Lifehacker.
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The defunct news site Gawker in 2015 published flight logs for one of Epstein's private jets.
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In mid-August, Gawker Media will be sold to the highest bidder in a bankruptcy auction.
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In 2012, Gawker had published a sex tape of Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea.
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The clip runs less than 2 minutes, and was posted to the Gawker site in 2012.
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Hogan was funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who holds a longstanding grudge against Gawker.
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This decision undermines the foundation of the ability of Gawker Media's employees to do our work.
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Jazeera America failed in part because of a drop in the global price of oil. Gawker
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Univision bought most of the assets of Gawker Media Group earlier this year for $135 million.
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The obvious bad news is that the media outlet at the center of it all, Gawker.
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Hogan sought $100 million in damages over the edited video that Gawker posted online in 2012.
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Liberal sites like Gawker have a long history of cyber-bullying in the name of journalism.
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Thiel secretly financed the lawsuit that bankrupted Gizmodo's former parent company, Gawker Media, back in 2016.
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Andrew White/Redux In 2016, Gawker Media was sued into bankruptcy by professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.
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For years, Gawker and Fox News fans wondered out loud whether anchor Shepard Smith was gay.
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Perhaps the lesson of Gawker is that outside investors sanitize content for the purpose of sustainability.
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In exchange for dropping his invasion of privacy claims, Hogan will receive $31 million from Gawker.
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Thiel further angered First Amendment supporters by bankrolling the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that brought down Gawker.
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Investment company Columbus Nova Technology Partners took a minority stake in Gawker Media earlier this year.
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During the hearing, which lasted about two hours, a judge approved certain business expenses for Gawker.
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But even as Gawker took stock of its next steps, it remained, in typical fashion, defiant.
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Gawker had considered the option of filing for bankruptcy within a few days, Ms. Dietrick said.
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As a journalist, I'm especially concerned by his financial crusade against Gawker and its broader implications.
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Harder represented wrestler Hulk Hogan in a sex tape lawsuit against the now-defunct Gawker website.
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DealBook At first, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, thought it an unlikely conspiracy theory.
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He has made Gawker into a scapegoat for the world he himself is helping to create.
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An opinion article last Sunday about Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media described the suit incorrectly.
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Mediator The brand-new Gawker Media offices in downtown Manhattan are the bomb, as in great.
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Perhaps he means his Times colleagues Caity Weaver and Kevin Draper, both spawn of Gawker properties.
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At Gawker Media's offices, the mood on Thursday afternoon was sad but also angry and defeated.
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In 2016, it was revealed that Thiel had been funding Hulk Hogan's 2012 case against Gawker.
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The Fox News anchor was also violent towards a waitress, according to a 2013 Gawker report.
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Barak's name and contact information appeared in Epstein's "little black book," which Gawker published in 2015.
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Univision's winning bid for Gawker will go before a U.S. bankruptcy judge later in the day.
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Gawker Media had become the property of Univision in 2016, two months after filing for bankruptcy.
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In 2012, Gawker published a video of former professional wrestler Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea having sex.
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Soon after, they got to work shaping the gossip-and-news aggregator that Gawker is today.
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Instead of suing Gawker directly, however, he secretly backed other plaintiffs with grievances against the site.
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Gawker says that if Mr. Bollea's claims prevail, the nation's hallowed press freedoms could be crippled.
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"This is a crucial issue not only for Gawker, but for all media organizations," he said.
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While the injunction was lifted, Gawker did not repost the video, but the text remains online.
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A profile in Gawker reveals that he's the first in the office and last to leave.
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Gawker just issued a statement saying it is confident the verdict will be overturned on appeal.
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Update, May 20123, 2016: Gawker and Hogan were read a giant verdict in Florida court Wednesday.
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Despite the filing, Gawker Media plans to continue publishing and won't cease operations, according to Politico.
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Ayyadurai has hired a lawyer named Charles Harder whose latest win was the destruction of Gawker.
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"It's the 'gawker' or 'rubbernecking' phenomenon, where people can't resist looking at disturbing things," he says.
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Gawker and representatives for Denton and Hogan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Peter Thiel dishes on Trump, tech regulation and Gawker in his latest interview with the Times.
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As Gawker has been quick to point out, the efforts of both consulting firms failed miserably.
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And it drew widespread criticism, signaling a shift in how and whether Gawker does these stories.
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"The Gawker example is a more standard case, where you're defending something more sleazeball," Lemann said.
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So you also looked ... famously made a bid for Gawker Media when they were in bankruptcy.
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On Gawker: He doesn't want to buy the defunct site to erase its archives, he asserts.
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In court, Hulk Hogan's lawyers sought to portray Gawker as an organization without a moral compass.
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A winning bid is expected to be announced in the coming weeks, if representatives of Gawker.
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What was it like to be written about, not just by Gawker, but by Nick Denton?
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In this case, Denton is removing the stuff Univision doesn't want, before the deal closes. Gawker.
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And a jury in Florida awarded Hulk Hogan $115 million because Gawker published his sex tape.
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Both Mr. Thiel and Mr. Ton-That had been the subject of negative articles by Gawker.
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Thiel secretly funded a 2015 lawsuit against Gawker Media that eventually led to the website's bankruptcy.
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Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker in 2015, which eventually led to the website's bankruptcy.
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Hogan's judgment forced Gawker, known for its sassy tone and gossipy posts, into bankruptcy in June.
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The NBC report noted that Gawker employees enjoyed generous salaries and had health and retirement benefits.
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The judge insisted that Gawker post a fifty-million-dollar cash bond in order to appeal.
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She was previously the chief strategy officer and vice president for business development at Gawker Media.
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As we've said before and are happy to say again: Gawker did not leak the information.
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You do that for a few years and then you end up back at Gawker Media?
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I'd always been very much a dedicated reader and ... This was the Gawker Media ... Women's blog.
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It's also not far off from Thiel, who secretly bankrolled a lawsuit against Gizmodo's former owner Gawker Media, resulting in the company's bankruptcy, saying, "A free press is vital for a public debate," in the same column where he explains why he sued Gawker out of existence.
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Deadspin, as a part of Gawker Media, was sold to Univision in 2016 after Terry G. Bollea, the former professional wrestler known as Hulk Hogan, won a $140 million judgment against Gawker for an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit financially backed by the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.
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According to the The Post, by "filing the amicus briefs in support of Gawker, First Look could effectively elevate the trial into a First Amendment rights case," one that would "pit" the media organizations supporting Gawker against a powerful foe of the organization: billionaire Peter Thiel .
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Nobody Speak carefully brings in former employees (including Gawker founder Nick Denton) and lawyers from the case, covering the Gawker trial in so much detail that Peter Thiel, the mogul who was revealed to be bankrolling Hogan's lawsuit, doesn't even show up until halfway through the film.
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Univision Executives Vote to Delete Six Gawker Media PostsIn a vote carried out on Friday night, Univision executives voted to remove six posts published by…Read more ReadThe reaction to this decision, among Gawker Media staffers and other members of the press, was almost universally negative.
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I'll make this quick: Our colleague Andrew Ross Sorkin spoke to Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, which was embroiled in a lawsuit with Hulk Hogan, née Terry Bollea, after Gawker published a tape of Mr., er, Hogan, having sex with another man's wife on camera.
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Even Mr. Thiel's support of free speech is apparently complicated: In addition to the Gawker legal offense fund, he has also donated to the Committee to Protect Journalists and speaks passionately about preserving freedom for the kinds of journalists he presumably believes do not work at Gawker.
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Hogan's lawsuit accused Gawker, Denton and former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio of violating his privacy by publishing a 1 minute, 41-second edited video clip featuring Hogan having sex with the wife of his then-best friend, the radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.
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That might seem like an odd fit for a site as gossipy and mean as Gawker could get, but the campaign notes that Gawker was among the first publications to write about figures like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis CK and others — often in the form of unsubstantiated rumor posts (for example, the post about Louis CK doesn't identify him by name), but still: Gawker was willing to chase stories that other outlets considered too risky or salacious.
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And here's Denton's entire interview with Recode Executive Editor Kara Swisher: Here's the Gawker press release: Gawker Media Group Announces Purchase Agreement with Ziff Davis Bankruptcy Auction Process Begins NEW YORK – June 10, 2016 – Gawker Media Group ("GMG") has entered into an asset purchase agreement to sell its seven media brands and other assets to Ziff Davis, a global digital media company which operates in the technology, gaming and lifestyle categories and is a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc.
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Gawker did it to lure eyes to its website while smugly saying the First Amendment sheltered it.
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Today, Gawker Media filed for Chapter 2000 bankruptcy, and subsequently announced a purchase agreement with Ziff Davis.
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Hulk Hogan is accustomed to a good fight—and Gawker Media is ensuring that he gets one.
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The Financial Times says Variety owner Penske Media (owned by Gawker target Jay Penske) is interested now.
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The $140 million judgment against Gawker eventually bankrupted the company, forcing it to sell its editorial assets.
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I worked for the nascent Gizmodo, part of the Gawker network founded by former journalist Nick Denton.
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Gawker said the footage was newsworthy information about a public figure, and protected by the First Amendment.
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It's unclear how owning and operating Gawker would fit in with Thiel's plan for a television network.
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In 2007, Gawker outed Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook, as gay.
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Gawker Media founder Nick Denton asked the question in an open letter to Thiel in May 2016.
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The FBI reportedly gained possession of the tapes, and Gawker successfully sued to gain access to them.
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The third is billionaire PayPal founder, Gawker litigator, ubiquitous venture capitalist, and contrarian Trump advisor, Peter Thiel.
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First, Gawker Media's banker, Houlihan Lokey's Mark Patricof, evaluates the bids to see what's actually in them.
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In 2007, Valleywag, a now defunct Gawker blog, published a piece on Thiel, outing him as gay.
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On Wednesday Florida Circuit Judge Pamela Campbell upheld the verdict and the award; Gawker intends to appeal.
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More recently, his bad behavior was highlighted in four different Gawker stories, published between 2008 and 2012.
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The "fun internet" is long gone—The Awl, Gawker, Grantland, Deadspin, and The Toast have all disappeared.
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The judgment, which is being appealed, led Gawker to file for Chapter 11 protection last month. on.wsj.
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It quickly became a major national story, with coverage by ABC News, Gawker, and many more sites.
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Rather, Thiel is using the legal system as a weapon to bleed Gawker in every single case.
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Gawker has also agreed to delete the articles involved in all three lawsuits in question, Denton added.
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After a Florida jury awarded Hogan $140 million in damages, Gawker filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.
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Gawker has written thousands of articles about thousands of people; it must have made a mistake somewhere.
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I hope that whoever buys Gawker/Gizmodo has the courage to stay true to that core principle.
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"At first he simply requested that Gawker take down the video," Thiel wrote in his op-ed.
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Last year was tough for many independent digital publishers, but it was especially tough for Gawker Media.
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The following month, layoffs sent a group of employees packing, the company replaced its COO and Gawker.
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Ziff Davis had agreed to bring him on as a consultant were it to have bought Gawker.
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And because Gawker is so disliked by power players in tech, there will be no backlash, either.
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Gawker said in a statement it welcomed the support from First Look, but did not provide details.
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Univision bid for Gawker Media in an auction after the media company was forced to declare bankruptcy.
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Earlier today, a hand-addressed envelope found its way onto our desks here at Gawker Media headquarters.
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The dinner that destroyed Gawker The Outline's reported struggles don't hold a candle to Gawker's tumultuous past.
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Gawker case, it reinvigorates the idea that media only exists because powerful people want it to exist.
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And Andy Cush says at Gawker that he has a simple solution: Stop drug testing employees altogether.
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The terms of the Univision sale restrict new articles from being published on Gawker until March 9.
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Gawker listed its largest debtor as Terry Bollea (Hogan), and noted that it owes him $130 million.
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JURORS FOUND THAT HOGAN'S PRIVACY WAS VIOLATED AFTER GAWKER POSTED HIS PRIVATE SEX TAPE ON ITS WEBSITE.
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The Spanish-language broadcaster Univision has agreed to buy Gawker for $135 million, CNN reported Tuesday night.
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One thing that Gawker is a case study of is the internet more than meanness qua meanness.
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But Nobody Speak, directed by Brian Knappenberger, isn't really about Gawker or Thiel or Hulk Hogan's penis.
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People targeted by the campaign reportedly included John Cook and Hamilton Nolan, who covered Ailes for Gawker.
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Billionaire PayPal co-founder and informal Trump adviser Peter Thiel has submitted an offer to buy Gawker.
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Donald J. Trump's hair is the latest point of contention between Gawker Media and Hulk Hogan's lawyers.
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Though the post was at times rambling, Mr. Denton's message was insistent: Gawker will be just fine.
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Gawker said it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and would conduct a sale through an auction.
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Ms. Dietrick said she was committed to staying at Gawker but acknowledged that its future was uncertain.
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What about, I know this is less under your purview, but the websites themselves, including the Gawker?
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Denton and Daulerio may each be required to post the entire total while Gawker looks to appeal.
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He founded Gawker precisely because he thought powerful people had too much control over their own stories.
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Gawker is new media, but it possesses an old-fashioned sensibility that dates from the 18th century.
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Specifically, the money came from Peter Thiel, above, the PayPal founder Gawker outed as gay in 2007.
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D'Souza got Thiel to pledge $10 million to a secret plan to sue Gawker out of existence.
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Gawker is able to spend $10 million defending itself and only loses in a court of law.
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EST to include the revelation that Trump re-tweeted a parody account that was created by Gawker.
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Last week, at its offices near Union Square, Gawker held its final party as an independent company.
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Left with few options, Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy and put itself up for sale in June.
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"It just wasn't about punishment of these individuals and Gawker," one juror told ABC after the trial.
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Every publication "is prepared to absorb the damage when it makes a mistake," he wrote on Gawker.
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N won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Gawker for $135 million, outbidding media company Ziff Davis LLC.
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Thiel, a major conservative donor, revealed in May that he was bankrolling Hogan's fight against Gawker Media.
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Univision bought the news website and all of Gawker Media at auction on Tuesday for $26 million.
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Most of the victims didn't fight back; Gawker could unleash both negative stories and well-funded lawyers.
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Other lawsuits against Gawker, led by the same lawyer, Charles Harder, representing Mr. Bollea, are still pending.
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Hogan is suing Gawker for posting a sex tape that depicts the wrestler with a friend's wife.
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Caption: Gawker founder Nick Denton speaks to the media in St. Petersburg, Florida on March 18, 2016.
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Last June, Gawker became the first in a series of digital media companies to seek to unionize.
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And Hulk Hogan, the former wrestling champion, is getting his day in court against the website Gawker.
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"Let's talk, for a lack of a better word, about your philosophy at Gawker," Mr. Turkel said.
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And Gawker, for all its faults, all of its obscenity, and all of its mistakes, did good.
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THR reports that Hogan sobbed at the news, while Gawker founder Nick Denton appeared to be stunned.
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Correction: This story originally conflated the publishing date of the Gawker story that outed a married man.
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The lead editor of News Genius is Leah Finnegan, formerly of the New York Times and Gawker.
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Gawker was one of the first to report that CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was gay in 2009.
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In 2013, Gawker reported that Fox News anchor Shepard Smith was romantically involved with a male staffer.
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Halfway through, the film pivots away from its initial subject, the court case that brought down Gawker.
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Like, he'd relentlessly pitch Gawker to write about him because he was a cool, hip, relevant person.
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He justified his involvement in the destruction of Gawker by calling it journalism at its very worst.
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This is when Gawker was still writing about sort of New York media as its main idea.
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What we're reading: This Esquire article about the failed restart of Gawker, the once insatiable news site.
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It was part of a bundle of sites that were sold off after the demise of Gawker.
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The settlement also calls for Hogan to receive some proceeds from a possible future sale of Gawker.
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What we're reading: This Esquire story about the failed restart of Gawker, the once insatiable news site.
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What we're reading: This Esquire story about the failed restart of Gawker, the once-insatiable news site.
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She wanted to be among a crowd, to be a gawker, to be occupied by others' misfortunes.
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Ken Turkel, in his summation, made certain that the jury knew where the Gawker offices were situated.
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Hogan's suit was bankrolled by Peter Thiel, a billionaire whom Gawker had outed as gay in 2007.
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The "Gawker For Good" site would cover entertainment, sports, gaming and celebrity news, the marketing company said.
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"In Australia, Blackface Is Still Only Slightly Offensive," was a headline on the website Gawker in 2.53.
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Gawker also reported William "got into an altercation" with a professor and challenged him to a fight.
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There has been a wave of unionization at online publications, getting its start at Gawker in 2015.
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Nothing about the facts of the case suggested that improper affairs might be going on at Gawker.
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This is when Gawker was still very much a New York media, sniping at Conde Nast ... Yes.
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" In a statement, Gawker Media accused Hogan of "abusing the court system to control his public image.
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The muscle man's invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker came to a close Friday, with a Florida jury finding Gawker liable and awarding the wrestler a shocking $115 million — $55 million for economic injuries and $60 million for emotional distress related to the unauthorized publishing of his sex tape.
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Prior to Gawker Media's bankruptcy and its loss in the Hogan trial, a banker, who claimed to have the back of at least one Silicon Valley power player, had called former Gawker Media employees around January 2016 to discuss the possible buyout of the company, according to Forbes.
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" In what would become a standard McInnes move, he later attempted to couch his remarks as ironic humor in a letter to Gawker, telling the website that his remarks were a joke and adding, "It's unfortunate that people in the know like Gawker are taking it all so seriously.
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Gawker Media founder Nick Denton acknowledges that his websites have to be held responsible what what they publish.
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Attorneys for Gawker argued that without the shield, Denton would be distracted by his own personal bankruptcy process.
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In May of 2017, nearly a year after Gawker shut down, a story mysteriously disappeared from its archives.
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Judge Pamela Campbell also said the court won't reduce the damages owed by Gawker, reported CBS Los Angeles.
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And this was before I had any concept of how much time Gawker was going to take up.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.
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Bollea won a $140 million judgment against Gawker in March 2016, precipitating its bankruptcy filing three months later.
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Update: This piece has been updated to include details of Peter Thiel's involvement in Gawker Media's bankruptcy.[Buzzfeed]
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For Gawker, there are decades of rulings that have favored the media over public figures in privacy cases.
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"Call it the Gawker effect," Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote a week after my story posted.
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The project's organizer, Parker Higgins, specifically cited the possibility of Thiel eliminating the Gawker archive as a motivation.
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Splinter launched in July 2017 when Univision owned the old Gawker assets, then known as Gizmodo Media Group.
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Two months later, Forbes reported that Thiel had been secretly funding Hogan's lawsuit, and others, against Gawker Media.
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Prior to the Hogan verdict, Denton would have argued that Gawker Media was worth at least $250 million.
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Whatever the increase is, it's counterintuitive, given the shellacking Gawker Media has taken in the last few months.
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And are you interested in buying Gawker back from Ziff or whoever the buyer turns out to be?
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Thiel, it was revealed recently, is bankrolling Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan) in his legal pursuits against Gawker.
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Still, Calacanis, who was last tagged by Gawker in 2014, called for better fact-checking at the site.
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The thing I think we were all chilled by was the way that Peter Thiel took down Gawker.
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According to the suit, Gawker had repeatedly threatened to release the statements over a period of several months.
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In this case, Gawker wasn't just forced to take down the video, it wasn't simply penalized or fined.
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Thiel also engaged in a secret legal campaign against the website Gawker, which culminated in the site's bankrupcty.
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Thiel, who was one of Facebook's earliest investors, recently admitted that he has funded lawsuits against Gawker Media.
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I am also certain that as many of our colleagues at Gawker, they don't have all the facts.
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The suit alleges Hogan had no idea the encounter was being filmed and that Gawker violated his privacy.
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Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
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Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy today, according to documents filed in a Southern District of New York court.
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Univision has said that it bought Gawker Media because it believed in the work that our publications do.
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Gawker replies that since Mr Bollea bragged in public about his sex life, his affairs are fair game.
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A group of former Gawker employees this week abandoned their effort to bid, one of the sources said.
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It calls for Thiel to withdraw from efforts to buy Gawker, and release claims against any eventual buyer.
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Gawker founder Nick Denton sounded the same theme in an interview this week with Dealbook's Andrew Ross Sorkin.
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Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker over the publishing of his sex tape was quietly funded by the billionaire.
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Hogan's lawyers tried to portray Gawker as a click-hungry tabloid, and compared the tape to revenge porn.
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"What Gawker did vis-a-vis what the big tech companies are doing is very different," he said.
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But ironically, the highest profile offender of revenge porn is the publisher of feminist blog Jezebel, Gawker Media.
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And they would have regretted doing the story, but that was the part of the deal being Gawker.
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For now, Hogan has won a $140 million judgement against Gawker — a number much bigger than anyone expected.
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Peter Thiel is a billionaire who decided he didn't like Gawker Media after it outed him as gay.
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Banks are lucky enough to be too big to fail; Gawker and blogging were too big to succeed.
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In a statement, Speier rebuffed the suggestion that the bill was crafted with the Gawker case in mind.
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Initially meant for a few faculty members and graduate students, the email leaked and wound up on Gawker.
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In the last year, writers, editors, producers and other content creators at "digital native" companies Gawker, VICE, Salon.
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Gawker had also wanted to question Clem about whether he conspired with Hogan to release the sex tape.
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" The hacker's motive, Gawker reports, is to be "a fighter against all those illuminati that captured our world.
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Hulk Hogan had a secret financial backer in his legal fight against Gawker Media for invasion of privacy.
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A Florida jury awarded Mr. Bollea $140 million in March over a sex tape Gawker published in 2012.
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It is conferred by the attention of others, attention that is only enhanced by every salacious Gawker post.
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The wrester, whose real name is Terry Bollea, sued Gawker for posting a sex video that involved him.
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Gawker has already said it will appeal, meaning a judge will need to possibly overturn the jury's decision.
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Is this why, for much of Conspiracy, you present Gawker as the Goliath and Hogan as the David?
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Valleywag, the same Gawker-affiliated outlet that outed Peter Thiel in 2007, called you a "fraud" in 2014.
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That could be good for Gawker if it is allowed to operate more or less on its own.
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Gawker, which said it had been denied credentials in the past, is sending four people to the convention.
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Elizabeth Spiers, who established much of the Gawker editorial voice as the namesake site's founding editor, was there.
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"At this point, you've probably heard more than I," said Tom Scocca, the features editor of Gawker Media.
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He has been unable to collect from Gawker on the $140 million judgment because of its bankruptcy filing.
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"It was a culmination of a year of dread," said John Cook, the executive editor of Gawker Media.
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In the aftermath, Mr. Denton vowed to make Gawker nicer, and the site shifted its focus to politics.
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While he may have killed Gawker, its sensibility and influence on the rest of the news business survive.
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That is the kind of clear moral line that Gawker and publishers like it have sought to blur.
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The flight logs aren't the only documents Gawker was able to obtain that cast suspicion on Epstein's acquaintances.
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For more than a decade, Gawker has prided itself on exercising—and at times, flaunting—its editorial freedom.
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Several potential buyers were since rumored to be making a play for Gawker, including venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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Sheryl Sandberg said that Peter Thiel won't be leaving the Facebook board over the Gawker Media lawsuit fracas.
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Hogan went on to sue Gawker, in a suit bankrolled by venture capitalist and tech guru Peter Thiel.
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Gawker Media had no choice but to file for bankruptcy; its carcass was sold to the highest bidder.
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Gawker talked with kids about the 2016 election, and Recode has broadcasted from inside our podcast recording rooms.
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Gawker Media sports vertical Deadspin has been running different simulations of current sports series on old video games.
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Nonetheless, Denton today promised in a post on Gawker that the site will live on, in some way.
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But the Ziff-Davis agreement is a useful look at what prospective bidders think makes Gawker Media valuable.
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Thanks to these considerations, the Gawker and Vice drives resulted in swift and fairly amicable recognition from management.
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Univision is buying Gawker Media Group for $135 million, but it won't be taking the company's flagship site.
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A spokesperson for Thiel declined to comment to BuzzFeed News, as did the administrators for the Gawker sale.
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Reuters said its sources asked not to be identified as the bankruptcy auction over Gawker remains in progress.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel, a major conservative donor, revealed in May that he was bankrolling Hogan's fight against Gawker.
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The $140 million judgment against Gawker — settled at $31 million — was enough to drive the outlet into bankruptcy.
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The term appeared in The New York Times a month later and on Gawker a year after that.
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Harder is best known for representing Hulk Hogan in his lawsuit against Gawker, which resulted in its bankruptcy.
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Charles Harder, the attorney who sucessfully sued Gawker Media on behalf Hulk Hogan, is representing the Trump campaign.
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Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton reportedly plans to leave the company after its sale to Univision is complete.
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After all, it was Deadspin's sister site, Gawker, that set off the movement to unionize in digital media.
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Another, quite different bet was secretly bankrolling the wrestler Hulk Hogan's invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media.
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Again, Gawker is another example where you can make a name for yourself by doing a specific thing.
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When we reached out to Gawker founder Nick Denton (pictured at left in the photo above) the company sent us this statement: With the Hulk Hogan trial beginning in early March, Gawker Media is fortifying its finances to ensure full resources are in place for the continued cost of litigation.
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And I think that for many years Nick and Gawker—even though it might not seem like it, because they're running these celebrity gossip stories—but I believe that Nick was under the impression that the role of Gawker was to usher in a new world of transparency and truth.
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Hogan was awarded $115 million in that lawsuit, which came about after Gawker posted a sex tape of him.
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Disclosure: In 2016, Thiel secretly bankrolled a lawsuit against Gizmodo's former owner Gawker Media resulting in the company's bankruptcy.
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THE ROLE: Total rock-star Peter Thiel, the slightly robotic hacker-lover trying to drive Gawker out of town.
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Later tonight, I'll see you at a New York media party that Gawker's having — it's a wake for Gawker.
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Nine years earlier, Gawker had published an article identifying Thiel as gay, which he also considered a privacy invasion.
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The case is In re Gawker Media LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 16-11700.
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Requisite to-be-sure qualifiers: Gawker can engage in other transactions prior to a sale, and may have to.
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Univision also recently bid for Gawker Media in an auction after the media company was forced to declare bankruptcy.
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Harder represented Hulk Hogan in a lawsuit against Gizmodo's former owner, Gawker Media, ultimately resulting in the company's bankruptcy.
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Those people, who were so regularly infuriated by Gawker, also clearly couldn't stop reading and listening to that voice.
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Hogan attorney David Houston called "disgusting" how Gawker claimed speech protections under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Goldberg plans to relaunch the media gossip blog Gawker in early 2019, two years after it was shut down.
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He's written that "A free press is vital for public debate," yet financed a lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker Media.
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He said that he was considering alternative measures in which Thiel would be allowed to try to buy Gawker.
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Both Gawker and Columbus Nova declined to describe the specifics of the deal, which is subject to shareholder approval.
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Gawker, she said, got access to the same resources that every other of Facebook's partners had on the platform.
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Gawker Media's sites are now attracting 699.27 million visitors monthly from the U.S., Denton said, citing traffic-counter Quantcast.
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Thiel apparently waited, patiently, for an opportunity to support litigation against Gawker, a media company that traffics in gossip.
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It ended with the revelation that tech legend Peter Thiel has been secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker.
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"The jury decided that Gawker did something bad," said venture capitalist Stewart Alsop, co-founder of Alsop Louie Partners.
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A Florida jury sided today with wrestling star Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) in his lawsuit against Gawker.
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" Denton said that he is now refocusing on the sale of Gawker and "maintaining the value of the business.
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What's more interesting to me is that I was blogging before Myspace, AOL WebBlogs, Gawker, and WordPress even existed.
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The reason, Thiel said: he deems a Gawker bully whose work often has no connection with the public's interest.
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Gawker's treatment of Thiel, who was featured regularly in a now-shuttered Gawker property called Valleywag, was particularly aggressive.
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The Wall Street Journal reports Deadspin and other former Gawker properties will become part of the Fusion Media Group.
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I mentioned that Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schulz, the firm representing Gawker in the case, was pushing back on rates.
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Gawker then received the full 30-minute video, burned onto a DVD and mailed to its office in Manhattan.
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Gawker, which begins presenting its defense in the $100 million lawsuit Monday, has said Daulerio is expected to testify.
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When pressed on an age, he drew the line at under four, which Gawker later called a "flip" reference.
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Jimmy Kimmel notably got into an on-air argument with former Gawker editor Emily Gould about a similar subject.
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Thiel is competing with other bidders to acquire Gawker domain names and nearly 200,000 archived articles, according to Reuters.
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Hogan sued Gawker for publishing a leaked video of the wrestler having sex with his former friend's ex-wife.
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We also don't know what the reaction of the employees and the talent of Gawker is going to be.
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And Peter's merciless plot to destroy Gawker (itself a former startup that had become an enormously powerful media company)?
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Speaking shortly before the auction on the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Spiers recalled that Gawker.
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The Vopper precedent is "a signal to me that an appellate court could" leave a verdict against Gawker alone.
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Thiel funded former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker after the site published a sex tape featuring Hogan.
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He also tied it to some legislation few had heard of, a so-called "Gawker Bill" moving through Congress.
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In May, it was revealed that Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker (among others) was financed by tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
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Hulk Hogan just won $115 million in his lawsuit against Gawker Media for posting his sex tape in 2012.
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It was sold to Univision earlier this year, and the new owners are no longer operating the Gawker website.
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Thiel, it seems, was upset about stories Gawker had run on him, one of which outed him as gay.
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On Gawker, Sophie Weiner also described her own stint working as a dining server at the Grove in 2016.
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Speaking today at the Code Conference, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke out against Peter Thiel's crusade against Gawker Media.
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Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy, according to documents filed today in Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court.
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Gawker has hired investment bank Houlihan Lokey Inc to advise it, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
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Gawker Media's legal battle with Hulk Hogan over the publication of a sex tape has had wide-ranging impact.
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He funded a team of lawyers to find and help "victims" of the company's coverage mount cases against Gawker.
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Other former Gawker properties, including Deadspin and Jezebel, were sold to Univision Communications in August 2016 for $135 million.
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The financial success of Gawker and its affiliated sites did not depend on insight or inspiration in the content.
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