Trotter announces the upsetting news: is ending its operations. (It does.) On August 18, Gawker reporter J.K. However, part of the agreement permits Univision to exclude from its acquisition, if it so desires. Here, a look back on what the site has undergone in the past few years.Īugust 16, 2016: Univision buys Gawker Media assets for $135 million.Īfter vengeful tech billionaire Peter Thiel funds the infamous Hulk Hogan lawsuit that bankrupts Gawker Media (RIP), Univision Communications buys some of the brand’s websites, including Deadspin, Jezebel, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Jalopnik, and Kotaku. Today, it’s unclear if zombie Gawker will even come to exist: On July 30, the Post reported that the entire staff was laid off and the relaunch was postponed indefinitely. In the wake of the website’s unceremonious death in August 2016, it was sold to Bryan Goldberg, an entrepreneur The New Yorker once described as “a giant six-year-old” and which Gawker itself once called a “clueless scamp.” On January 23, just one week after (new) ’s first four employees were announced, the Daily Beast reported that the site’s only two reporters stepped down due to another staffer making offensive and wholly inappropriate comments in the workplace five months later, the site’s sole senior editor followed suit and quit just ahead of Gawker’s scheduled relaunch in fall 2019, per the New York Post.
Such is the fate of New Gawker - and that’s just the beginning of the story. It would be a perfect Gawker story if it weren’t, uh, technically about Gawker: millionaire purchases a beloved website that used to mock him mercilessly after it was driven into bankruptcy by a vengeful billionaire, only to put it under the stewardship of someone with both a history of terrible tweets and the lack of foresight required to do a quick search-and-delete, leading to what seems to be total institutional chaos.
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