A full-time job is employment in which workers work a minimum number of hours defined as such by their employer.
67-595: Gawker is an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers that was based in New York City and focused on celebrities and the media industry. According to SimilarWeb , the site had over 23 million visits per month in 2015. Founded in 2002, Gawker was the flagship blog for Denton's Gawker Media . Gawker Media also managed other blogs such as Jezebel , io9 , Deadspin and Kotaku . Gawker had come under scrutiny for posting videos, communications and other content that violated copyrights or
134-432: A four-day week generally consists of four ten-hour days, it may also consist of as little as nine hours for a total of a 36-hour workweek. Twelve-hour shifts are often three days per week, unless the company has the intention of paying out the employee overtime. Overtime is legally paid out anytime an employee works more than 40 hours per week. The legal minimum for overtime starts at Base Pay + One-Half. The increased payout
201-441: A laid-off worker. Full-time workweeks : A person working more than full-time is working overtime , and may be entitled to extra per-hour wages (but not salary ). “Full-time” can also be used in reference to a student (usually in higher education ) who takes a full load of course work each academic term . The distinction between a full-time and part-time student varies markedly from country to country. As an example, in
268-542: A mashup of the site's Gawker Stalker feature and Google Maps . After this, Gawker Stalker—originally a weekly roundup of celebrity sightings in New York City submitted by Gawker readers—was frequently updated, and the sightings are displayed on a map. The feature sparked criticism from celebrities and publicists for encouraging stalking. George Clooney 's representative Stan Rosenfeld described Gawker Stalker as "a dangerous thing". Jessica Coen said that
335-669: A $ 31 million settlement with Hogan. In 2007, Gawker published an article by Owen Thomas allegedly outing Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel as gay, although Thomas contends the article did not constitute outing since Thiel's sexuality had been "known to a wide circle" in the Bay Area. This, together with a series of articles about his friends and others that he said "ruined people's lives for no reason", motivated Thiel to fund lawsuits against Gawker by people complaining their privacy had been invaded, including Hulk Hogan. On July 16, 2015, Gawker reporter Jordan Sargent posted
402-588: A New York judge denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. On May 16, 2023, a New York appeals court dismissed the lawsuit. In April 2021, it was reported that Gawker would relaunch with former Gawker writer Leah Finnegan tapped as editor-in-chief. Finnegan has said, of the tone of the relaunched site, that "[...] current laws of civility mean that no, it can't be exactly what it once was." The site relaunched on July 28, 2021. On February 1, 2023, Bustle Digital Group announced that it would shut down Gawker as part of company-wide cuts. The company e-mailed employees, "facing
469-413: A bankruptcy auction for less than $ 1.5 million. On January 16, 2019, it was announced Carson Griffith, Ben Barna, Maya Kosoff and Anna Breslaw were joining the staff of the new Gawker. However, on January 23, 2019, Kosoff and Breslaw announced they were quitting the site over offensive workplace comments made by Griffith. "We're disappointed it ended this way, but we can't continue to work under someone who
536-505: A bankruptcy auction for less than $ 1.5 million. Gawker relaunched under the Bustle Digital Group on July 28, 2021, with Leah Finnegan as editor. On February 1, 2023, Bustle Digital Group suspended the site's operations. Finnegan tweeted that the publication was folding. In November 2023, Gawker was acquired by Meng Ru Kuok. The Gawker digital archive was not included in this purchase and all articles have been removed from
603-418: A factor when making decisions on career advancement. They generally pay more than part-time jobs per hour, and this is similarly discriminatory if the pay decision is based on part-time status as a primary factor. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer (US Department of Labor). The definition by
670-406: A lawsuit against Gawker and Denton for violating his privacy, asking for $ 100 million in damages; the trial was slated for July 2015. The cost of the lawsuit was partly funded by Peter Thiel , whom Gawker had previously outed in 2007. In January 2016, Gawker Media received its first outside investment by selling a minority stake to Columbus Nova Technology Partners . Denton stated that the deal
737-517: A message on Denton's Facebook page, accusing him of " Nazi -style anti-Semitism ." Roubini also called Denton an ignorant antisemite with a Nazi mind, a McCarthyist bigot, and a hypocrite, noted that Denton was gay, accused him of being a stalker, and added: “You are a loser and an intellectual dwarf who cannot engage me on my widely respected views on the economy … too bad [sic] was the first one that early on predicted in minute and precise details this most severe financial crisis.” When asked about
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#1732791320825804-927: A need for Gawker 's reinvention and that "whatever plans materialize, what's for sure is that it won't be the same as it was before". However, the digital archive was not included in this purchase and all articles have been removed from the Gawker website. Gawker usually published more than 20 posts daily during the week, sometimes reaching 30 posts a day, with limited publishing on the weekends. The site also published content from its sister sites. Gawker' s content consisted of celebrity and media industry gossip, critiques of mainstream news outlets, and New York-centric stories. The stories generally came from anonymous tips from media employees, found mistakes and faux pas in news stories caught by readers and other blogs, and original reporting. On July 3, 2006, when publisher Nick Denton replaced Jesse Oxfeld with Alex Balk, Oxfeld claimed it
871-460: A salary of $ 60,000 a year. Gawker had revenue of $ 48.7 million in 2015. Most of its assets were sold to Univision for $ 135 million following the Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit loss and ensuing 2016 Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In 2007, Denton's Valleywag editor Owen Thomas outed Silicon Valley billionaire businessman Peter Thiel as gay in a post entitled "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people." In
938-843: A settlement that allowed Denton to emerge from personal bankruptcy. Denton was featured in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007 in position #502, with an estimated wealth of £140 million based on the sale of his previous companies and the then-current value of Gawker Media. On 31 May 2014, Denton married actor Derrence Washington. He lives in New York City. Full-time job Full-time employment often comes with benefits that are not typically offered to part-time , temporary , or flexible workers, such as annual leave , sick leave , and health insurance . Part-time jobs are mistakenly thought by some to not be careers . However, legislation exists to stop employers from discriminating against part-time workers so this should not be
1005-413: A site that was proving difficult to staff, a lightning rod for controversy, and, ultimately, expensive to operate (reporting is expensive) while not generating commensurate revenue". In 2020, Griffith sued The Daily Beast , the site's editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman , and writer Maxwell Tani for defamation over an article about Kosoff and Breslaw's resignation over Griffith's comments. On March 24, 2021,
1072-433: A story about a gay porn star's alleged text correspondence with a married executive from a competing media company, Condé Nast . The article claimed Condé Nast CFO David Geithner had planned to go to Chicago to meet a male escort, and pay him $ 2,500 for sex. The article also claimed that after the escort requested Geithner settle the escort's housing dispute, he cancelled the meetup, and the escort went to Gawker to publicize
1139-437: A surprisingly difficult first quarter of 2023, [it] had made the decision to reprioritize some of its investments that better position the company for the direction we see the industry moving." Finnegan announced the company's decision on Twitter that same morning. In November 2023, the Gawker brand and domain were purchased by Meng Ru Kuok, the founder of Singapore-based venture capital firm Caldecott Music Group. Kuok stated
1206-441: A vulva." Denton for his part commented: "How can such a brilliant economist, at the height of his reputation, be quite so clueless?" On 28 October 2010, Denton published an anonymous kiss-and-tell piece entitled, "I Had a One-Night Stand with Christine O'Donnell ". However, according to the writer, O'Donnell only slept naked with the anonymous writer, and did not have sex with him. The National Organization for Women condemned
1273-477: Is antithetical to our sensibility and journalistic ethics, or for an employer [CEO Bryan Goldberg] who refuses to listen to the women who work for him when it's inconvenient," Kosoff and Breslaw said in a statement. In March 2019, Dan Peres was announced as the site's editor-in-chief. However, in August 2019, Peres, Griffith and the rest of the staff tasked with relaunching the site were laid off. "We are postponing
1340-419: Is considered to compensate slightly for the increased fatigue which a person experiences on such long shifts. Shifts can also be very irregular, as in retail , but are still full-time if the required number of hours is reached. There are some situations where a person who needs full-time work is dropped to part-time, which is sometimes a form of constructive dismissal to avoid paying unemployment benefits to
1407-518: The New York Observer six months after his promotion. Later, in 2005, the editor position was split between two co-editors, and Coen was joined by guest editors from a variety of New York City-based blogs; Matt Haber was engaged as co-editor for several months, and Jesse Oxfeld joined for longer. In July 2006, Oxfeld's contract was not renewed, and Alex Balk was installed. Chris Mohney, formerly of Gridskipper , Gawker Media's travel blog ,
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#17327913208251474-561: The New York Observer . In February 2007, Sicha returned from his position at the New York Observer , and replaced Mohney as the managing editor. On September 21, 2007, Gawker announced Balk's departure to edit Radar Magazine ' s website; he was replaced by Alex Pareene of Wonkette . The literary journal n+1 published a long piece on the history and future of Gawker , concluding that, "You could say that as Gawker Media grew, from Gawker' s success, Gawker outlived
1541-475: The Atlantic Wire, a blog of the magazine, The Atlantic Monthly . In 2012, the website changed its focus away from editorial content and toward what its new editor-in-chief A. J. Daulerio called "traffic whoring" and " SEO bomb throws". In January 2013 Daulerio reportedly asked for more responsibility over other Gawker Media properties, but after a short time was pushed out by publisher Denton. Daulerio
1608-447: The Gawker archive was worth preservation – "the early content of Gawker , in particular, is of real significance in the history of journalism. [...] But whether you like it or not, or mimic it or not, what they did changed the way things are done. For that alone, it is (and will be) worth study, and is thus worth preserving". In 2017, academics Katherine Boss and Meredith Broussard commented that "the archives included, crucially, not just
1675-516: The Gawker relaunch," a BDG spokesperson said. "For now, we are focusing company resources and efforts on our most recent acquisitions, Mic, The Outline, Nylon and Inverse." Kate Storey of Esquire outlined the leading theory on the failed relaunch was that it aimed to turn Gawker into "the prestigious, journalistic gem of BDG, kept afloat by the profits of other sites like Bustle and Elite Daily", however, "the BDG board and Goldberg soon lost interest in
1742-490: The Gawker website no longer displays its articles following the purchase of the Gawker brand without the purchase of the archive. On October 4, 2012, Daulerio posted a short clip of Hulk Hogan and Heather Clem, the estranged wife of radio personality Todd Alan Clem , having sex. Hogan sent Gawker a cease-and-desist order to take the video down, but Denton refused. Denton cited the First Amendment and argued that
1809-528: The Scientology video featuring Tom Cruise from the recently removed posting on YouTube. They soon posted a copyright infringement notice written by lawyers for Scientology. By July 2009, the video had not been removed and no lawsuit was filed. On September 17, 2008, in reporting that pranksters associated with 4chan had hacked the personal e-mail account of Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin , Gawker published screenshots of
1876-602: The Southern District of New York, following the loss of the Hogan lawsuit. CNBC also reported that Gawker Media would be put up for auction following the bankruptcy filing. On August 18, 2016, Gawker Media announced that its flagship blog, gawker.com, would be ceasing operations the following week. Univision continued to operate Gawker Media's six other websites - Deadspin , Gizmodo , Jalopnik , Jezebel , Kotaku and Lifehacker . On August 22, 2016, Nick Denton wrote
1943-833: The United States a student is commonly defined as being in full-time education when they undertake 12 or more credit hours . This translates to 12 "hours" (often of 50 minutes instead of 60 minutes each) in class per week. "Lab hours" often count for less, only as one-half or one-third of a credit hour. International students must maintain full-time status for student visas . Adult students (typically up to age 22 or 23) may also fall under their parents' health insurance (and possibly car insurance and other services) if they are full-time, except for one term per year (usually summer ). Students may also be eligible for elected office in student government or other student organizations only if they are full-time. The Department of Labor has
2010-889: The United States, and in the summer of 2002 he moved to New York City. Denton founded Gawker Media in 2002, initially running the company out of his apartment in New York City's SoHo, Manhattan . Gawker Media initially had only two internet sites — Gawker (a news and gossip site) and Gizmodo (a gadgets and technology blog). Gawker Media blogs expanded to include Jezebel (aimed at women), and Deadspin (a sports site), as well as Lifehacker (tips to live life better), Jalopnik (automotive culture), io9 (science, futurism, and science fiction), and Kotaku (video games and culture). In 2008 Gawker sold music site Idolator to Buzz Media , Gridskipper to Curbed , and consumer affairs site Consumerist to Consumers Union . In 2010, Gawker Media attracted 17.5 million US visitors per month. Up until 2012, Denton paid himself
2077-507: The accompanying commentary had news value. Judge Pamela Campbell issued an injunction ordering Gawker to take down the clip. In April 2013, Gawker wrote, "A judge told us to take down our Hulk Hogan sex tape post. We won't." It also stated that "we are refusing to comply" with the order of the circuit court judge. Gawker' s actions have been criticized as hypocritical since they heavily criticized other media outlets and websites for publishing hacked nude pictures of celebrities. Hogan filed
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2144-495: The alleged incident. The post sparked heavy criticism for outing the executive, both within and outside Gawker . Denton removed the story the next day, after Gawker Media's managing partnership voted 4–2 to remove the post—marking the first time the website had "removed a significant news story for any reason other than factual error or legal settlement." On July 20, 2015, Gawker Media executive editor Tommy Craggs and Gawker.com editor-in-chief Max Read posted their resignations from
2211-602: The articles but also the comments and the dialogue that readers had with the authors. Yet no advance plans had been made for Gawker's archives, and the abruptness of the bankruptcy and the sale, compounded by the controversial nature of the site and its implosion, made it even more difficult to save at the last minute". Their review of the independent archive status in July 2017 "showed that archive.org had more than 16,000 snapshots of www.gawker.com dating back to 2003, with substantial gaps in coverage [...]. Quality assurance of each post
2278-502: The billionaire problem". On the independent archive, The New York Times commented: For readers, finding past coverage would be similar to using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. For journalists, the archives represent a line of defense against what some fear is an increasingly potent weapon. Readers and former employees of Gawker have fretted that its domain and archive could be bought by someone with little regard for
2345-453: The case of Gawker [...] as a cautionary tale illustrating the precarity of digital news" and that "the Gawker and Gothamist cases both scared reporters who don't personally archive their own work, just as it demonstrated the role of news archives in democratic societies and the need for preservation policies that ensure the public with a faithful account of history". As of November 2023,
2412-476: The coming months . Most came from sites with low ad revenue. On November 12, 2008, the company announced selling the popular blog site Consumerist and the folding of Valleywag , with managing editor Owen Thomas being demoted to a columnist on Gawker , and the rest of the staff being laid off. Some members and staff writers complained that owner Nick Denton was looking to sell out all of the Gawker sites while they were still profitable. In December 2009, Denton
2479-465: The comment section of Thomas's post, Denton speculated as to why Thiel kept "his personal life a secret from journalists... for so long." He named "a guy called Matt" as an alleged boyfriend. In response, Thiel called Valleywag the "Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda". Thiel said the sites were "scar[ing] everybody" and stifling the culture of Silicon Valley, which is "supposed to be about people who are willing to think out loud and be different." It
2546-403: The company, citing the lack of transparency by and independence from the company's management over the post's removal, rather than the concerns over the post's issues and received criticism, as the cause. Denton offered staff who disagreed with the actions a buyout option, which was accepted by staff including features editor Leah Finnegan and senior editor and writer Caity Weaver . Denton defended
2613-510: The company’s onetime mission. [...] Mr. Higgins said the threat of an owner who would remove or change articles could have a chilling effect on the press, either by directly shutting publications or by encouraging self-censorship. Research on the "archiving practices and policies" of various types of journalistic production by the Columbia Journalism Review in 2019 highlighted that interviewed news workers "frequently cited
2680-508: The conditions for its existence". In 2008, weekend editor Ian Spiegelman quit Gawker because Denton fired his friend Sheila McClear without cause. He made that clear in several comments on the site at the time, also denouncing what he said was its practice of hiring full-time employees as independent contractors in order to avoid paying taxes and employment benefits . On October 3, 2008, Gawker announced that 19 staff members were being laid off in response to expected economic hardships in
2747-679: The decision. Gawker staff announced the vote on May 28, 2015. Following the decision to delete a controversial story in July 2015 ( see § Condé Nast executive prostitution claims , below ), Read and Gawker Media executive editor Tommy Craggs resigned in protest. Leah Beckmann, the site's then deputy editor, took over as interim editor in chief. She was replaced in October 2015 by Alex Pareene. On August 18, 2016, Gawker announced that it would be shutting down after Univision Communications acquired Gawker Media's six other websites. These websites continued to operate under Univision which named
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2814-690: The editor of the university's magazine, The Isis Magazine . Denton began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times , a British daily business newspaper. He co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank , the oldest merchant bank in London, called All That Glitters (1996). He was a co-founder in 1998 of a social networking site, First Tuesday. That same year Denton co-founded media-monitoring service Moreover Technologies with David Galbraith and Angus Bankes, schoolmates from UCS. Shortly after, he moved to San Francisco in
2881-516: The emails, photos, and address list obtained by the hackers. While accessing personal e-mail accounts without authorization constitutes a federal crime, current DOJ interpretation of this statute following the decision in Theofel v. Farey-Jones is that perpetrators may be prosecuted only for reading "unopened" emails. FBI Spokesman Eric Gonzalez in Anchorage , Alaska, confirmed that an investigation
2948-477: The employer can vary and is generally published in a company's Employee Handbook. Companies commonly require from 32 to 40 hours per week to be defined as full-time and therefore eligible for benefits. Full-time status varies between company and is often based on the shift the employee must work during each workweek. The "standard" work week consists of five eight-hour days , commonly served between 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM totaling 40 hours. While
3015-505: The exchange by a reporter for The Guardian , the reporter said Roubini then "reprises the rant, embellishing it with references to the KGB , Denton's sexual orientation , and a sweary suggestion of what the man might do with himself, which he belatedly asks me not to quote.... the piece of art in question is described by Roubini as the work of a highly regarded feminist artist whom he won't name and which doesn't, he assures me, look anything like
3082-573: The final article for Gawker , titled "How Things Work". In September 2016, Univision removed multiple articles which were published under Gawker Media: "two Gizmodo posts about Shiva Ayyadurai , who claims to have invented email; two Deadspin posts about former major league baseball player Mitch Williams ; a Deadspin post about conservative provocateur Chuck Johnson; and a Jezebel post about Meanith Huon. Ayyadurai, Williams, Johnson and Huon have all sued Gawker Media for defamation over those posts". On March 14, 2006, Gawker launched Gawker Stalker Maps,
3149-503: The following week. Its other websites were unaffected, and continued publication under Univision as the renamed Gizmodo Media Group . Founder Nick Denton created the site's final post on August 22, 2016. The Freedom of the Press Foundation independently archived the Gawker website and its articles in 2018. On July 12, 2018, Bryan Goldberg , owner of Bustle and Elite Daily , purchased Gawker.com and its archive in
3216-618: The mainstream press". In 2018, the Freedom of the Press Foundation independently archived the Gawker website and its articles via Archive-It . Parker Higgins, the Freedom of the Press Foundation's director of special projects, said they wanted to "reduce the 'upside' for wealthy individuals and organizations who would eliminate embarrassing or unflattering coverage by purchasing outlets outright. In other words, we hope that sites that can't simply be made to disappear will show some immunity to
3283-518: The map is harmless, that Gawker readers are "for the most part, a very educated, well-meaning bunch", and that "if there is someone really intending to do a celebrity harm, there are much better ways to go about doing that than looking at the Gawker Stalker". On April 6, 2007, Emily Gould appeared on an edition of Larry King Live hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel during a panel discussion titled " Paparazzi : Do They Go Too Far?" and
3350-484: The new editor-in-chief of Gawker . Gabriel Snyder, who had been editor-in-chief for the previous 18 months and had greatly increased the site's readership, released a memo saying he was being let go from the job. In December 2011, A. J. Daulerio, former editor-in-chief of Gawker Media sports site Deadspin , replaced Remy Stern as editor-in-chief at Gawker . The company replaced several other editors, contributing editors, and authors; others left. Richard Lawson went to
3417-479: The piece as " slut-shaming ". NOW's president, Terry O'Neill, said, "It operates as public sexual harassment. And like all sexual harassment, it targets not only O'Donnell, but all women contemplating stepping into the public sphere." Salon ' s Justin Elliott criticized the ad hominem nature of the article, tweeting "Today, we are all Christine O'Donnell." Gawker.com reportedly paid in the "low four figures" for
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#17327913208253484-500: The privacy of its owners, or was illegally obtained. Gawker 's publication of a sex tape featuring Hulk Hogan led Hogan to sue the company for invasion of privacy. Hogan received financial support from billionaire investor Peter Thiel , who had been outed by Gawker against his wishes. On June 10, 2016, Gawker filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay Hogan $ 140 million in damages. On August 18, 2016, Gawker Media announced that its namesake blog would be ceasing operations
3551-729: The son of British economist Geoffrey Denton and his wife, Marika (née Marton), a Hungarian Jew who survived the Nazis during the Holocaust in Hungary and escaped the Soviet 1956 invasion of Hungary at age 18. A psychotherapist , she died of cancer the year before her son moved to New York City. Denton has a younger sister, Rebecca. He was educated at University College School (UCS) and University College, Oxford , where Denton studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics . He also became
3618-532: The story's writer, Sargent, who remained in his job. According to The Daily Beast , "a source familiar with the situation said Gawker ultimately paid the subject of the offending article a tidy undisclosed sum in order to avoid another lawsuit." Gawker Media President and General Counsel Heather Dietrick declined to confirm or deny there was a settlement. On June 10, 2016, Gawker Media and its associated subsidiaries Gawker Sales, Gawker Entertainment, Gawker Technology and Blogwire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in
3685-415: The story. Denton defended it, praising its "brilliant packaging." On October 4, 2012, Gawker published an extract from a leaked sex tape of former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. After Denton refused to comply with a cease-and-desist order from Hogan and a court injunction to remove the video, Hogan sued Gawker for violation of privacy. Billionaire Peter Thiel paid Hogan's legal team $ 10 million, as he
3752-598: The unit Gizmodo Media Group in an effort to distance itself from the Gawker name. Gawker' s employees were transferred to the other six websites or elsewhere in Univision. While Univision initially acquired the Gawker website when it purchased the other websites, "Univision deemed the Gawker.com brand too toxic, and transferred it back to the bankruptcy estate". The Gawker website remained online after it ceased publication. On July 12, 2018, Bryan Goldberg , owner of Bustle and Elite Daily , purchased Gawker.com in
3819-517: The website. Gawker was founded by journalist Nick Denton in 2002, after he left the Financial Times . It was originally edited by Elizabeth Spiers . Gawker' s official launch was in December 2002. When Spiers left Gawker , she was replaced by Choire Sicha , a former art dealer. Sicha was employed in this position until August 2004, at which point he was replaced by Jessica Coen, and she became editorial director of Gawker Media . Sicha left for
3886-538: Was an attempt to make the blog more mainstream and less media-focused, ending a tradition of heavy media coverage at Gawker . Denton announced in a staff memo in November 2015 that the site was switching from covering New York and the media world to focus primarily on politics. Gawker' s website with its content initially remained online following its shutdown in 2016. This archive contained "over 200,000 articles". Christopher Bonanos of New York argued in 2016 that
3953-490: Was angry at Gawker for an earlier story reporting that Thiel was gay. On March 18, 2016, the jury found in favor of Hogan and awarded him $ 115 million, which included $ 55 million in compensatory damages and $ 60 million for emotional distress. On March 21, the jury awarded Hogan an additional $ 25 million in punitive damages, including $ 10 million from Denton personally. Denton filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on August 1, 2016. On March 22, 2017, Hogan and Denton reached
4020-533: Was asked about the Gawker Stalker. Kimmel accused the site of potentially assisting real stalkers , adding that Gould and her website could ultimately be responsible for someone's death. Kimmel continued to claim a lack of veracity in Gawker 's published stories, and the potential for libel it presents. At the end of the exchange Gould said that she didn't "think it was OK" for websites to publish false information, after which Kimmel said she should "check your website then." On January 15, 2008, Gawker mirrored
4087-475: Was hired for the newly created position of managing editor. On September 28, 2006, Coen announced in a post on Gawker that she would be leaving the site to become deputy online editor at Vanity Fair . Balk shared responsibility for the Gawker site with co-editor Emily Gould . Associate editor Maggie Shnayerson also began writing for the site; she replaced Doree Shafrir , who left in September 2007 for
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#17327913208254154-568: Was hit or miss, and comments were also archived only intermittently". Maria Bustillos, for the Columbia Journalism Review in 2018, highlighted "what would be missing if the Gawker archive were to disappear" which includes the "roots" of public accusations on the misconduct of Louis C.K. , Bill Cosby , and Harvey Weinstein . Bustillos opined that "in the absence of journalists willing to take such risks, it's not at all clear whether such stories would ever have come to light in
4221-463: Was later revealed in 2016 that Thiel had paid $ 10 million in legal expenses to finance several lawsuits brought by others against Denton and Gawker Media, including a lawsuit by Hulk Hogan . Denton publicly blamed Thiel several times for having planned to take down Gawker.com. In 2008, after Denton wrote a post labeling economist Nouriel Roubini a playboy who lived in a “ vulva -" and " vagina -encrusted Tribeca loft", Roubini reacted by posting
4288-484: Was nominated for "Media Entrepreneur of the Decade" by Adweek , and Gawker was named "Blog of the Decade" by the advertising trade. Brian Morrissey of Adweek said " Gawker remains the epitome of blogging: provocative, brash, and wildly entertaining". In February 2010, Denton announced that Gawker was acquiring the "people directory" site CityFile.com, and was hiring that site's editor and publisher, Remy Stern, as
4355-464: Was reached in part to bolster its financial position in response to the Hogan case. In March 2016, Hulk Hogan was awarded $ 140 million in damages by a Florida jury in an invasion of privacy case over Gawker' s publication of a sex tape: on March 18, Hogan was awarded $ 55 million for economic harm and $ 60 million for emotional distress ; on March 21, 2016, the jury awarded Hogan a further $ 25 million in punitive damages . On November 2, Gawker reached
4422-464: Was replaced as editor-in-chief by longtime Gawker writer John Cook. In March 2014, Max Read became the Gawker' s editor-in-chief. In April 2014, using internet slang was banned per new writing style guidelines. In June 2015, Gawker editorial staff voted to unionize. Employees joined the Writers Guild of America. Approximately three-fourths of employees eligible to vote voted in favor of
4489-546: Was underway. Nick Denton Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton (born 24 August 1966) is a British Internet entrepreneur , journalist, and blogger. He is the founder and former proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media , and he was the managing editor of the New York City–based Gawker until a lawsuit by Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) bankrupted the company. Denton grew up in Hampstead in London,
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