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Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American internet media company and blog network. It was founded by Nick Denton in October 2003 as Blogwire, and was based in New York City.
Gawker was 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 as of 2015. Founded in 2002, Gawker was the flagship blog for Denton's Gawker Media.
Feb 1, 2023 · The irreverent gossip site helped define digital media in the 2000s. It was shut down in 2016 after its parent company at the time, Gawker Media, filed for bankruptcy after an...
Gawker. It's a website on the internet.
Feb 1, 2023 · Gawker is shutting down for a second time. After first shutting down following a lawsuit from wrestler Hulk Hogan, the pop culture and satire website was acquired by Bustle Digital Group CEO...
Feb 3, 2023 · It spawned an independent media model in which skepticism of elites and an appetite for mischief making resulted in stories about power and its abuses (along with a lot of frivolous celebrity...
Feb 23, 2018 · In 2016, Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler, won a nine-figure lawsuit that ultimately bankrupted Gawker Media, a fleet of sites that epitomized the barbed brilliance of New York’s young ...
Jul 28, 2021 · The website known for blunt, gossipy coverage of celebrities, tech entrepreneurs, media figures and anyone else with an inflated ego went live on Wednesday, two years after a failed reboot...
Gawker Media. 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).
Aug 19, 2016 · For Gawker Media's websites to live, Gawker.com, the actual namesake website, has to die. It will be shut down next week by its new owner, a victim of its own poisoned legacy.
