hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

xp- lmao

it goes in a differently terrible direction than you'd initially expect

it’s fuckin wild

who in their right mind would've thought those were words that should be committed to paper

Oh, stop being coy, holocaust denier, tell us why you are estranged from your Jewish father!

Heard an interview with Max earlier this week btw

https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/260-fake-ass-internet/

so much for that whole "hiring reporters" thing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-comments/

Kosoff additionally told HR of an exchange in which Griffith took a dismissive stance towards the recruiting of a writer who identifies as non-binary.

Kosoff, who was tasked with recruiting some new editorial staff, wrote in a Slack message that she was going to meet with a potential staffer “who is a person of color and nonbinary (uses they/them pronouns).”

When she returned from the meeting two hours later, Griffith initially laughed off the preferred pronouns.

“lol is [name redacted] a girl?” Griffith asked.

wow, just a straight up evil person, i hope she eats shit forever

hard to believe this can't-fail concept is failing

walking away from presumably lucrative gigs like this in the current media economy takes guts, so props to them

I was looking up Griffith last week on instagram, twitter and her articles. I couldn't figure out how she landed this job besides her mingling in the monied prep Trump crowd.

at the same time, they a) took jobs from someone widely known to be a shithead and b) eventually realised, one presumes, that being associated long-term with his shitty project could affect their future job prospects xp

lots of people knowingly work for shitheads and keep on doing it because $$$. I have certainly done this!

Oh her instagram is now private. It was very white linen hamptons. Ha and pic with Billy McFarland.

xpost The majority of companies are run by shitheads. How to choose?

very hamptons indeed

https://guestofaguest.com/new-york/you-should-know/you-should-know-writer-carson-griffith

I mean there's clearly different calculus at work when you have a byline etc, but idk there are plenty of shitty, toxic outlets with one or two writers worth reading (the NYT for example)

What Yerac said, I don't understand how Griffith got the job in the first place.

She did write a very nice piece about Ivanka too.

The profile said she is “more than just a pretty face” so that’s something

there are a lot of valid reasons to shit on the original gawker as a tabloid rag, but the one thing they did right was allow writers who weren't grads from a subset of northeastern prep schools and prestige colleges or complete society hanger-ons get a foot into the media world

i'll sign off on that

tru

however will we enable "access journalism" if our reporting staff didn't go to the right schools and do unpaid internships?!

Aw, all the party photo sites that Blue States Lose linked to are dead. RIP 2005 Brooklyn.

GMG bought by a private equity firm.

Gizmodo Media Group has been sold to Great Hill Partners. Our statement: pic.twitter.com/OJlbp3ysNH

— GMG Union (@gmgunion) April 8, 2019

Jim Spanfeller, who is now overseeing The Onion and GMG sites like Gizmodo, Jezebel, Deadspin, acknowledges importance of “editorial independence” in a memo to staff, while also stressing the need for a “healthy and productive partnership” work with business side pic.twitter.com/XoCAxyoS4h

— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) April 8, 2019

The skeleton has been pulled out of the coffin, tied off in a bag full of heavy stones and then thrown to the bottom of the sea

i feel terrible for the folks at the onion who are chained to this shambling zombie

they lure you in with the promise of Kinja, but then you wake up to the reality of getting sold to something called Great Hills Partners

fuckin' kinja, what a disaster that was

i posted dozens of hilariously witty comments on gawker over the years. about 3.5% of them were approved and published. imo that is why the whole enterprise went down in flames

(in case you're keeping track, gawker has now woke up to a dystopian reality, went down in flames, died, been placed in a coffin, and sunk to the bottom of the sea)

still got tim rogers, though

i posted dozens of hilariously witty comments on gawker over the years. about 3.5% of them were approved and published. 

Seriously. What was the actual process for getting out of the grays?

you had to personally know a mod and text them

yet more proof, as if further proof was required, that ilx is the only good design for an online forum

if you post on a site that isn't one of the more-trafficked ones or post on an older article you're never out of the grays. no clue how you become regular enough that you're not gray comment-by-default

I think the writers are self-moderating comments on their articles? seems like a hellscape

if you post on a site that isn't one of the more-trafficked ones or post on an older article you're never out of the grays.

There was a one-month period where I was posting there a lot for some reason (chronic messgeboars guy here, can’t help it), and what was frustrating was that even on the heavily trafficked, 20-minute old articles it was nearly impossible to get your comment approved

And on and older one, yeah, total waste of time to try to contribute. Cool system!!

what ever happened to "new gawker"?

it's still happening. now run by the guy who ran details for a long time. racist socialite girl is still there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/media/gawker-editor-dan-peres.html

missed this when it was reported a couple of days ago

lmao obv

In the latest sign of editorial turbulence, the number two editor at the yet-to-relaunch Gawker is returning to Interview, the Andy Warhol-founded magazine that only emerged from bankruptcy in September.

Ben Barna, who had been reporting to Editor-in-Chief Dan Peres, opted to return to Interview a mere five months after he joined Gawker, which famously filed for bankruptcy in 2016 after a Florida jury ordered it to pay $115 million for publishing a Hulk Hogan sex tape.

Barna will be replaced by Nate Hopper, who is still listed as the ideas editor on Time magazine’s website. He also once worked at Esquire.

A spokeswoman for Gawker’s new parent company, Bustle Media, said Hopper started in the new role Wednesday. Bustle, owned by Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg, bought Gawker out of bankruptcy in late 2018 for $1.35 million.

Barna’s departure is just the latest setback in the notoriously snarky website’s relaunch. Gawker’s only two full-time writers quit in January in protest of an executive who they said used anti-gay slurs and made derogatory comments about Asians and celebrities deemed to be overweight. The site is now slated for a relaunch in “fall 2019.”

in related but not connected news: https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/babe-net-aziz-ansari-date-rise-and-fall.html

seems like a remarkable number of stories about the stories of men accused of horrifying things include some version of the line "the now-defunct news site Gawker published a story about..." https://t.co/7QBzk3IGEj

— Mark Berman (@markberman) July 10, 2019

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

Yup.

nice.

big time banger

now 13 captures on the wayback machine

Seems obvious that it won't stay up. It hits home way too hard to be allowed to live.

Hm