![]() Here is how BuzzFeed's staff will remember Gawker. However, people around the country dont take it as a joke, said Brad Zeifman, celebrity publicist. It's ironic, but also somehow fitting, that it was brought down by one of the very people who most needed to be kept in check. I understand that Stalker Gawker is supposed to be a joke. Still, the DNA of the original site (and its early editors) was never really lost Gawker always saw its mission as being not afraid to speak truth to the most powerful. So it wasn't that surprising that when we asked BuzzFeed staffers for their favorite Gawker posts, many of them - Caity Weaver on TGI Friday's, Adrian Chen on the most notorious Reddit troll, Kiese Laymon on racism in America - were from the last few years, a time when Gawker had moved far beyond its original ambitions. Even so, traffic eventually plateaued - it turns out that there is a limit to the number of people who care about media gossip and mocking socialites - and sometime not long after I left, the site's mandate grew much broader. But Gawker was (arguably?) the most widely read. I only lasted 10 months before taking a job at the Observer, where the snark was a little more subtle.Ĭertainly Gawker was not the first publication ever to do this there was Spy, and there was, and there was Might Magazine, and there was the New York Observer, which (believe it or not) used to actually tweak the rich and powerful. We were never explicitly told to be "snarky" or negative, but it was understood that that was the default posture, and it turns out that doing it day in and day out is exhausting. Because at the time, Gawker was explicitly a New York and media-centric blog anything outside of that world was considered off-limits. A distraught Hogan is invited to go to the home of his best friend, a shock jock by the name of Bubba the Love Sponge. What's funny about this email, nearly 10 years later, is that there was no question at the time that the post had news merit - it was that it did not have the right news merit. Gawker’s Nick Denton Explains Why Invasion of Privacy Is Positive for Society After a decade of publishing scoops that have made him an outlaw to those looking to protect secrets, Denton opens. Unless there's NYC/media-gossip hook I'm missing." The post was titled "Barbara Bush, Committed Drinker," and it published some photos with commentary of the former first daughter throwing a few back at Yale. the Barbara Bush post/photos, while amusing, are off-topic. Gould declared that the section on represented citizen journalism and went on to claim that nobody expected all the information on the site to be. I was two weeks into the job when I got an email from my boss, Chris Mohney, about a post I had written: "The one commenter has a point. When I was offered a job there as a writer in the fall of 2006, it seemed like I had unlocked some kind of door into a secret club. For those of us who came of age in the early to mid-2000s with vague aspirations to work in media, Gawker pulled the curtain back on a world that seemed at once alluring and opaque. ![]()
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