The near-term plans for ’s coverage, as well as the site’s archives, have not yet been finalized. 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.
The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign against the company. The lawsuit was funded by Peter Thiel, the billionaire PayPal founder who Gawker once outed as gay.Īfter nearly fourteen years of operation, will be shutting down next week. Gawker, along with its founder Nick Denton, was forced into bankruptcy after it was sued by former wrestler Hulk Hogan for the release of his sex tape in 2012.
Univision on Tuesday agreed to buy the six other sites, including Jezebel. “After nearly fourteen years of operation, will be shutting down next week” announced Trotter in the post. Here, rootlessness gets etched in fine-grained detail when an exhausted Madelyn imagines lighting a cigarette to spark a lungful of gasoline, it’s a grandiose fantasy contextualized and. The 14-year-old website will shut down next week, according to a post on. Trotter, they announced the beginning of Univision’s plans, after the company made a winning bid for Gawker Media earlier this week.
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