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Gawker’s Seth Abramovitch Fired After Kanye N-Word Post

Gawker’s Seth Abramovitch Fired After Kanye N-Word Post

After a stunningly offensive post- even for Gawker- writer Seth Abramovitch is no longer working for the blog. Earlier this week, Abramovitch was chronicling a series of late-night tweets by Kanye West, regarding the rapper’s new project, called DONDA. If you are […]

Gawker Media Loses Kotaku Editor, Shuffles Staff

Gawker Media Loses Kotaku Editor, Shuffles Staff

The new year brought in some changes at blogging empire Gawker Media, as one of the company’s most tenured editors left the site to join Vox Media, parent company of The Verge. Business Insider confirmed that Chris Grant, formerly of […]

Nick Denton Says Gawker Wants to Eliminate ‘Boring’ Commenters

Nick Denton Says Gawker Wants to Eliminate ‘Boring’ Commenters

If you’ve noticed a stricter than normal vibe around the Gawker comments section lately, you’re not necessarily imagining it. Nick Denton, Gawker’s mastermind, indicates that the site is focusing on attracting a higher class of commenters on the blog- despite […]

Fleshbot Up For Grabs

Fleshbot Up For Grabs

If you’re not aware of Gawker’s porn title Fleshbot, you could easily be forgiven and perhaps be considered a bit of a web celibate- the site is a well-curated, Gawker-style rundown of daily internet porn. Gawker doesn’t trumpet the site […]

Gawker, Future to Launch Gizmodo UK Edition

Gawker, Future to Launch Gizmodo UK Edition

Gawker Media and Future Publishing are bringing Gawker’s tech-focused property, Gizmodo, to the UK this fall. Future, who owns T3, TechRadar and MacFormat in the UK, will be publishing the site- and former Gizmodo US contributing editor Kat Hannaford, who is […]

Charges Dropped Against Gizmodo Over Lost iPhone 4 Prototype

Charges Dropped Against Gizmodo Over Lost iPhone 4 Prototype

The team at tech blog Gizmodo are breathing a touch easier today with news that police will not being pursuing charges against any writers of the site over the now infamous lost iPhone 4 prototype story. The investigation occurred after […]

Gawker Sued For $10M By Wrongly ID’d Schwarzenegger Mistress

Gawker Sued For $10M By Wrongly ID’d Schwarzenegger Mistress

Gawker is being sued by a California woman for defamation by libel after she says she was wrongly identified as a former lover of Arnold Schwarzenegger during the height of his love child scandal. Tammy Tousignant was a flight attendant […]