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September 2022

Gawker makes a comeback six years after it was sued into closure

A new version of the website, quietly launched a year ago under new owners, is attracting interest and readers again

March 2017

Trump ally Peter Thiel risks political backlash, says Gawker founder

SXSW 2017: your guide to the best music, films and TV

November 2016

'The saga is over': Gawker reaches $31m settlement with Hulk Hogan

News site, which filed for bankruptcy after it lost a lawsuit over publishing the former wrestler’s sex tape, agreed to forego an appeal and pay a cash settlement

August 2016

Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Gawker has gone. We can’t just look the other way
Peter Preston
The collapse of the libertarian, scandalous news site has secretly relieved some less aggressive media companies. But the implications are truly ominous

The death of Gawker.com: Univision basks in acquisition while writers mourn

Univision leaves the flagship site behind, Nick Denton goes bankrupt and employees suffer ‘shit upon shit’ in the aftermath of the Hulk Hogan trial

May 2016

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel admits to bankrolling Hulk Hogan's Gawker lawsuit

Billionaire's revenge: Facebook investor Peter Thiel’s nine-year Gawker grudge

March 2016

Hulk Hogan awarded $115m in Gawker sex tape lawsuit

Hulk's lawyers say Gawker founder was 'playing God' in closing court arguments

November 2015

Gawker is dead, long live Gawker: site shifts to politics ahead of 2016 election

Site announces new direction with focus on ‘political news, commentary and satire’ and lays off staff described as ‘valuable assets in previous iterations’

July 2015

Nick Denton: Gawker to search for new top staff and draw up editorial code

Media group’s founder says it is to begin ‘a real, civil dialogue’ in the wake of senior editors’ exit over the deletion of a post

Media blog
Why BBC, Gawker and the FT must fight to keep editorial independence
Jane Martinson
Why should anyone trust them if they are influenced by advertisers, owned by faraway private corporations or bullied by the government?

Gawker’s Nick Denton: ‘We are not part of your PR marketing machine’

The online media company’s founder on keeping control of a changing business, breaking free of data – and the Hulk Hogan sex-tape trial

March 2014

Media interview
Vice's Shane Smith: 'Young people are angry and leaving TV in droves'
The multimedia empire's chief executive on video journalism, North Korea – and why he won't be taken over by a big rival. By Jon Swaine

February 2014

Digital hacks may need a transfer window as talent moves up a league

Emily Bell
Emily Bell: Journalists are leaving legacy media organisations to gain the freedom to maximise their potential

June 2013

Greenslade
Why Brits are big hitters in the US media
Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade on the aggression that underlies the growing success of British journalists in America

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