gawker media
univision holdings inc. is buying gawker media, the online media and blog network in bankruptcy .
nine websites owned by new york - based gawker media, including the media and technology site gawker and popular gadget site gizmodo .
, “the managing partnership of gawker media voted, 5 - 1, to remove” the article. gawker media founder and publisher nick denton
gawker media owns gawker, jezebel, lifehacker, kotaku, deadspin, gizmodo, and jalopnik .
gawker media chief nick denton wanted sophistication, but all he got was trouble .
gawker media group is being represented by attorneys at levine sullivan koch & schulz .
also, gawker media sites gridskipper and idolator will be spun off, too .
gawker media' s union officially has a contract. now what? - recode
gawker media group inc. , the parent company of gawker media and proprietor of websites such as gawker. com, deadspin and jezebel, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on friday in manhattan .
hulk hogan’s legal battle against gawker media. last night, thiel confirmed his involvement in the hogan case—and others against gawker—in
gawker media' s new look, as shown on the site io9. com .
i can only hope that gawker media becomes a much more hulkamaniac friendly news service .
gawker media is truly gone now. univision communications, the new owner of gawker media group, announced that the unit overseeing the former online media company' s brands will be called gizmodo media. univision, which bought gawker for $ 135 million in a bankruptcy proceeding last month, also said ...
a day in the life of gawker media - final from source / record on vimeo .
mark patricof, the houlihan lokey banker who represented gawker media, confirmed the sale price .
news about gawker media, including commentary and archival articles published in the new york times .
digiday reported that gawker media took in revenue of $ 48. 7 million in 2015 .
former unpaid gawker media interns will be permitted to send notices to other potential lawsuit participants .
“to facilitate gawker media’s use of kinja’s intellectual property, web domains, and proprietary publishing platform, gawker media and kinja are party to several intercompany agreements, each as described herein .
how gawker media became a social technology company... . we shifted our work to focus on building a closed platform for gawker media group properties and a few core ...
tags: interns, unpaid, underpaid, unpaid interns, underpaid interns, intern lawsuits, fair labor standards act, flsa, gawker media, mark v. gawker media llc, collective action
employees at gawker media, the company that publishes websites like gawker and jezebel, voted by a substantial margin on wednesday to form a union, a first for a prominent digital media outlet .
gawker may soon return from the dead. while univision acquired most of gawker media' s sites last year (and renamed them as the gizmodo media group), the deal didn' t include gawker itself. now a group
owner of gawker media, nick denton. gawker' s motto is
today' s gossip is tomorrow' s news .
along with its flagship gawker site, gawker media also publishes consumer websites gizmodo, lifehacker, kotaku, jalopnik, deadspin and jezebel .
in one of its first big post - acquisition moves, univision communications, inc. (uci) has ditched the gawker media name. the spanish - language media giant is rebranding the unit gizmodo media group, further distancing itself from gawker’s legal troubles .
gawker media chief nick denton is selling d. c. media gossip site wonkette to current managing editor ken layne and other investors, according to a source .
it would be going too far to declare gawker media’s nick denton the most hated man in america .
screens of the various gawker media properties are displayed at the company' s offices in new york .
major names in media are appalled by a gawker story they' re calling' gay shaming.'
© copyright 2018 variety media, llc, a subsidiary of penske business media, llc. variety and the flying v logos are trademarks of variety media, llc. powered by urltoken vip
mergers have a tendency to be messy, and gawker media' s entry into univision' s portfolio is far from the most troubled media acquisition in recent history .
gawker has previously relied on partners who have syndicated or translated gawker content and sold ads locally, like netmediaeurope and australia' s allure media .
gawker media' s assets, minus the flagship gawker. com, were acquired by univision, which renamed the remaining entity gizmodo media group and appointed former news corp. executive raju narisetti to run it .
denton told judge pamela campbell in june that gawker media group, inc. was worth $ 276 million .
the controversy arrives at a potentially delicate time for gawker media, which was founded by denton in 2002 .
a takeover of gawker media contributes to univision' s efforts to expand its digital media properties aimed at reaching younger consumers, though univision could soften the sharp tone that has come to define gawker' s properties .
it has been revealed that gawker media have attempted to blackmail subreddit moderators to gain modship of their subs .
“kinja’s assets are primarily comprised of its ownership of the intellectual property that it licenses to gawker media. ”
in fact, part of the agreement leaves univision with the choice to return urltoken to gawker media llc .
kinja’s services to gawker media llc. third, pursuant to an intercompany services agreement, dated as of january 1, 2012 (the “kinja services agreement”), also between gawker media and kinja, kinja agreed to perform editorial services, content creation services, and other services for gawker media. under the terms of the intercompany services agreement, gawker media agreed to pay kinja for the costs of services provided plus 5% . ”
gawker media is the publisher of some of the web' s best - loved media properties, including the eponymous gawker and technology site gizmodo. founded in 2002 by nick denton, the influential media group publishes eight original brands to a collective audience of over 115 million global readers .
univision communications has tapped media and journalism veteran raju narisetti as ceo of the newly named gizmodo media group, encompassing the six brands it acquired from gakwer media for $ 135 million in a bankruptcy proceeding .
gawker ceo nick denton issued a statement, saying he is
pleased gawker is leading the movement in the online media world toward collaboration and inclusion .
word of the website’s closing comes after the sale of its parent, gawker media, to univision this week .
nick denton, the founder and chief executive of gawker media, discusses on cnbc his employees’ decision to unionize .
harder famously represented hulk hogan in his lawsuit against gawker media, which eventually led to the site shutting down .
“the debtors in these chapter 11 cases include gmgi and its wholly - owned subsidiaries, gawker media and kinja .
paul farhi, the washington post' s media reporter, explains why gawker media group, the parent of the news and gossip site gawker, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (thomas johnson / the washington post )
hulk hogan testifies in court during his trial against gawker media. (photo: john pendygraft / getty images )
the statement said the sale and the bankruptcy filing will allow gawker media to appeal the judgment in the hogan case. here’s a screen grab of gawker’s filing :
in the weeks leading up to the bankruptcy auction, there had been speculation that dozens of media companies were interested in gawker media. but univision and ziff davis were the only bidders .
gawker media and the union that represents its employees announced on monday that they had reached an agreement on a labor contract, the first designed and negotiated specifically for a digital media company .
cook cited multiple examples of strong gawker journalism that more conventional media organizations had no choice but to follow and credit .
hulk hogan is suing gawker media and nick denton for violating his privacy by posting a video of him having sex .
magazine and consumerreports. org, has purchased urltoken from gawker media. the popular consumer watchdog blog will operate independently of
cut to 2016 – to continue fighting, gawker media had to sell a minority stake to columbus nova technology partners .
if a millennial audience is what univision seeks, gawker media’s properties, will be a perfect addition. feminism - focused
1 comment on hulk hogan vs. gawker – this week’s events leading to gawker’s bankruptcy auction
the debtors in these cases, along with last four digits of the taxpayer identification number are: gawker media llc (0492); gawker media group, inc. (3231); and kinja kft. (5056). the offices of gawker media llc and gawker media group, inc. are located at 114 fifth avenue, 2d floor, new york, ny 10011. kinja kft. ’s offices are located at andrassy ut 66. 1062 budapest, hungary .
gawker started life in denton’s soho apartment in manhattan with a mission to expose celebrities and the media elite. it quickly became popular for its “snarky” tone and abhorrence of pr and media spin .
univision, which bought gawker media last month, believed that it was obligated to delete the posts because it did not assume gawker’s liabilities, according to a memo .
turkel said gawker media’s gross revenues in 2015 were $ 48. 7m and that founder nick denton has a total of $ 121m, including a $ 3. 6m manhattan condo. gawker media is worth $ 83m, the lawyers said .
after months of negotiations with management, gawker media employees have successfully agreed on a union contract, the first of its kind at a digital media company. it’s a significant step for gawker that could also set a standard for other outlets .
— the conversation around the hulk hogan vs. gawker media lawsuit' s impact on the media is about to get a lot deeper, as it appears that a team of creditors is attempting …
global media company ziff davis has agreed to buy gawker' s seven media brands and other assets, though gawker' s sale will be conducted through a bankruptcy - court - supervised auction that may include other bidders, the company told cnbc .
also on wednesday, allthingsd' s peter kafka reporter that gawker media managing editor noah robischon was leaving for fast company .
nick denton, the founder of gawker media, was there, but he wasn' t looking for love or money .
some of us on the gawker media editorial staff have decided to try to unionize. here' s a brief explanation .
apparently that’s not exactly true. the decision to remove the geithner exposé came after bitter disagreements among gawker media’s senior managers .
simultaneously, gawker media parent company gawker media group announced that it had agreed to sell its assets in an auction supervised by a bankruptcy court. ziff davis, the media company that owns pc mag, has agreed to purchase gawker’s assets for $ 90 million to $ 100 million, a person close to gawker told politico, though it’s expected that other potential buyers will participate in the auction and make higher bids .
whatever happens to gawker, it' s already changed digital media, experts told cnbc. for an in depth look at gawker' s influence, read more here .
univision, the new owner, intends to keep publishing all of the other gawker media blogs. it' s just the main gawker site itself that is shutting down .
by gawker; many others are not and can easily be traced to an individual. gawker has
“gawker media’s value derives from its websites’ content, primarily from selling advertising on the websites and earning revenue from sales of products that gawker media writes about or promotes on the websites. advertising on the websites accounts for approximately 75% of gawker media’s revenue per year, as compared to all other sources combined, which account for approximately 25% of gross revenue. advertising revenue is
, gawker was the best place to become a journalist. its alumni are everywhere in digital media. richard lawson, now at
in an email to re / code, nolan explained more fully why he thinks other digital media shops will follow gawker’s lead .
guanabee media' s founder, daniel mauser, is already working for gawker and he' ll be running gizmodo en español .
it will likewise ensure that gawker media’s management retains the flexibility to run the business effectively in a fast - paced and fluid environment. the agreement is the result of occasionally intense but always collegial negotiation, and preserves the autonomy, agility, honesty, and editorial freedom that has made gawker media the largest independent voice in digital media .
denton confirmed the sale, which was first reported by recode, tuesday in a statement .
gawker media group has agreed this evening to sell our business and popular brands to univision, one of america’s largest media companies that is rapidly assembling the leading digital media group for millennial and multicultural
prefer to get the news as it happens? follow us on social media .
sign up for the tip sheet of the media industry, brought to you by brian stelter, dylan byers, and the best media team in the business .
[ 95 ] case c - 160 / 15, gs media bv v. sanoma media netherlands bv, 2016 urltoken (sept. 8, 2016) .
[ 97 ] case c - 160 / 15, gs media bv v. sanoma media netherlands bv, 2016 urltoken (sept. 8, 2016) .
there was nothing newsworthy or journalistic about gawker media facilitating and encouraging the public' s violation of plaintiff' s copyright in the screenplay ,
the document reads ,
and its conduct will not shield gawker media from liability for their unlawful activity .
the writers guild of america east organized gawker as its first unionized digital media outlet in june 2015. although gawker was bankrupt in less than a year later, for unrelated reasons .
and so gawker’s demise turns out to be the ultimate gawker story. it shows how things work .
peter thiel, the tech billionaire, helped run gawker media offline. now he is trying to buy what is left of it .
web sites belonging to gawker media abruptly stopped publishing new material on sunday after mischief - making hackers gained access to the company’s servers .
gawker media files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, plans to sell assets after losing us $ 140. 1 million hulk hogan privacy case
since the deal, the six former gawker media sites — gizmodo, jezebel, deadspin, kotaku, jalopnik, and lifehacker — have struggled with indecision, a dysfunctional bureaucracy, and an exodus of top leadership and institutional knowledge that gave gawker media its editorial bite .
in the nine months since the acquisition, the company formerly known as gawker media has seen an exodus of top talent and leadership .
“we are encouraged by the agreement with ziff davis, one of the most rigorously managed and profitable companies in digital media, ” denton said, in a statement. “a combination would marry ziff davis’ strength in e - commerce, licensing and video with [ gawker media’s ] premium media brands. ”
gawker media filed for bankruptcy today, according to documents filed in a southern district of new york court. the filing comes as gawker’s legal battle with the wrestler hulk hogan (real name
all of this is a welcome development for readers, who will enjoy gawker media’s sites, with their new, more visually striking look and feel, more than they used to. but what will happen to gawker media’s revenues, and to the value of the company ?
so here is an intriguing media rumor: rupert murdoch is angling to purchase gawker media. yesterday, at least two media reporters approached at least two gawker media employees about a potential sale to murdoch’s news corp—or, more likely, 21st century fox. apparently the rumor was first posted to secret, the anonymous messaging smartphone app, though we couldn’t find a copy of the actual post. efforts to determine the rumor’s origin came up empty .
and gawker’s media enemies made sure that the most compromising moments from the trial got wide distribution. the new york post, whose editor col allan had been called a pig - fucker by gawker
quentin tarantino has filed a copyright lawsuit against gawker media for allegedly facilitating the dissemination of copies of his unproduced script, the hateful eight .
dietrick, who joined gawker media from hearst after the bollea / hogan litigation was already in progress, suggested that it’s a different company from 2012, operating in a different media ecosystem, and that gawker is being sued for something—a sex video—that it would probably not publish today .
gawker media filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on friday, in order to protect its assets from seizure by former professional wrestler hulk hogan .
in 2014 – actor quentin tarantino filed a copyright lawsuit against gawker media for distribution of his 146 - page script for the hateful eight .
© 2018 guardian news and media limited or its affiliated companies. all rights reserved .
kinja’s ip license to gawker media. first, pursuant to a master license agreement, dated as of january 1, 2011 (the “master license agreement”), between gawker media and kinja, gawker media obtained an exclusive license to use certain brand elements, including trademarks, trade names, and service marks, as well as associated goodwill, websites, web addresses, and urls, patents, copyrights, works of authorship, trademarks, and related intellectual property. under the terms of the master license agreement, gawker media agreed to pay kinja a quarterly license fee determined by the amount of revenue received or receivable by gawker media over the twelve month calendar year beginning january 1 and ending december 31 .
gawker editor - in - chief max read responded: “given the chance gawker will always report on married c - suite executives of major media companies f * * cking around on their wives. ”
in an email praising the
rich, collective past / legacy
of gawker, narisetti noted that the company implemented a policy of not engaging in discussions or debates on gawker media estate issues .
nick denton, the founder of gawker media, in march after a jury awarded hulk hogan millions in damages in a lawsuit against the company .
some of the former gawker media news sites - gizmodo, lifehacker, deadspin, jezebel, kotaku and jalopnik - are being operated by univision .
according to this article [ arstechnica. com ], gawker media also owns gizmodo, deadspin, jezebel, lifehacker, kotaku, and jalopnik .
business insider has counted the resignations of at least 26 former gawker media employees since the merger, many of them in editorial - leadership positions .
gawker founder nick denton speaks to the media during the invasion - of - privacy case brought by hulk hogan. photograph: eve edelheit / ap
gawker media, the media website that thrived off scandal and controversy, filed for bankruptcy on friday after losing a $ 140m lawsuit surrounding one of its most controversial stories: the publication of a sex tape involving former wrestler hulk hogan .
new york – june 10, 2016 – gawker media group (
gmg
) has entered into an asset purchase agreement to sell its seven media brands and other assets to ziff davis, a global digital media company which operates in the technology, gaming and lifestyle categories and is a subsidiary of j2 global, inc .
denton' s handling of gawker has been frugal, continually consolidating resources toward the blogs that were pulling in traffic and ad dollars and not hesitating to shut down the underperformers. in april, gawker media
a number of gawker media properties — gawker. com, deadspin, jezebel, gizmodo — published notes to their readers explaining that the sites would continue operating as usual while the company went through bankruptcy .
gawker media' s properties include the flagship gossip site gawker, the female - oriented jezebel, the sports site deadspin, the tech - oriented gizmodo and jalopnik, which is aimed at auto enthusiasts .
and: what will we remember of a network of blogs called “gawker media”? here is the collected wisdom on the topic of gawker from reddit over the years, in the words of redditors themselves .
the troubled media group gawker is close to settling a lawsuit with the daily mail over a gawker post by a former worker entitled “ my year ripping off the web with the daily mail online ” .
raju narisetti, news corp’s senior vice president of strategy, has been named the new ceo of a gawker - less gawker media group, cnn reported wednesday. the company will be renamed gizmodo media group, named for gawker’s famed tech blog, when narisetti begins his tenure in late october. gawker media was acquired last month by univision after a long legal battle with pro wrestler hulk hogan over a blog post featuring a sex tape of him with a friend’s wife. gawker ultimately lost and was forced into bankruptcy, prompting a sale of its sites—save for gawker. com, which has been shuttered—to univision .
following a day - long auction against the online publisher ziff davis, the media conglomerate univision is buying gawker media’s assets—including deadspin, gizmodo, jalopnik, jezebel, kotaku, and lifehacker—for $ 135 million. however, the fate of the company’s flagship website, gawker. com, remains unclear .
the union representing the editorial staff at gawker media has announced that it has successfully bargained the first union contract at a digital media company – an innovative three - year deal that sets minimum pay levels and gives gawker’s 99 union members a 3% across - the - board raise each year .
the change comes a little less than a year since fusion owner univision agreed to buy the gawker media assets, minus the flagship gawker website, for $ 135 million. those sites, which include gizmodo, jezebel and jalopnik, were integrated as part of the gizmodo media group and the fusion website became a part of that editorial group, which falls under the fusion media group .
nobody speak draws lines between a bunch of strange attacks on media, with damning conclusions .
mr. canterbury should have said seizure stories are fake news by crooked media. sad .
“we are encouraged by the agreement with ziff davis, one of the most rigorously managed and profitable companies in digital media, ” nick denton, gawker media group’s (gmg) founder, said in a statement. “a combination would marry ziff davis’ strength in e - commerce, licensing and video with gmg’s premium media brands. ”
vox media, penske media and univision have all been named as potential gawker buyers, though it is not known whether they will participate in the auction. as politico reported last month, univision held preliminary discussions with gawker before the hogan trial that valued the company in the $ 200 million range .
gawker media itself was hit with a $ 15m judgment, while its owner, nick denton, was personally ordered to pay $ 10m in damages .
univision communications inc (uci) today announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire gawker media group, as part of its bankruptcy proceedings .
out of ideological conviction and financial self - interest, corporate media - - facebook, google, and gawker - - want to see privacy destroyed .
gawker media files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, plans to sell assets after losing us $ 140. 1 million hulk hogan privacy case | financial post
here' s a fucking newsflash for you - people are human beings with opinions, and senses of humor. gawker media is made of many ,
gawker media has 180 employees, 40 whom are international. the network has about 35 million monthly unique visitors and serves up 560 million monthly pageviews .
here' s how denton grew gawker from a tiny startup to a million - dollar company and became one of the most controversial figures in media .
here' s a statement from gawker media owner nick denton :
gawker media group has agreed this evening to sell our business and popular brands to univision, one of america’s largest media companies that is rapidly assembling the leading digital media group for millennial and multicultural audiences. i am pleased that our employees are protected and will continue their work under new ownership — disentangled from the legal campaign against the company. we could not have picked an acquirer more devoted to vibrant journalism .
nick denton, founder of gawker, talks with his legal team before terry bollea, aka hulk hogan, testifies in court during his trial against gawker media on march 8, 2016 in st. petersburg, fla. gawker lost the case and filed for bankruptcy .
gawker media’s big company - wide redesign, a year in the making, will finally come out of beta on january 3. it will the biggest event in gawker media history, for all three arms of the company—editorial, sales, and technology. it’s a concerted attempt for gawker media to stop being a blog network and start being something much more ambitious. and while that will be most immediately visible in the way that the blogs look, a massive change is taking place on the sales side, too: chris batty, gawker media’s semi - legendary head of sales, is leaving the company .
in addition to gawker, gawker media owns six other web brands, including the sports site deadspin and the tech blog gizmodo. it was founded in 2002 by denton, a former staffer at the financial times .
gawker has already said it would appeal against last week’s verdict, in a case which was widely expected to reshape how the media covers celebrities in future .
in a jan. 30 post, gawker editor john cook blamed tarantino for
deliberately
turning the leak into news by revealing it to the media .
quentin tarantino has filed a lawsuit against gawker media claiming copyright infringement after the web site posted a copy of his leaked script, “the hateful eight. ”
freedom of the press is a cornerstone of our nation. like them or not, sad to see nyc media giant @ gawker forced to the brink .
brian ries is tech and social media editor at the daily beast. he lives in brooklyn .
the other websites published by gawker media— deadspin, lifehacker, gizmodo, jalopnik, jezebel, and kotaku —will all continue to operate as normal under the banner of univision’s fusion media group. gawker will cease publishing new articles on monday, although its archives will remain online. gawker staffers will be reassigned, either at one of its sister sites or at parent company univision .
mail media inc. d / b / a mail online v. gawker media llc and james king. , no. 159134 / 2015 (n. y. sup. ct. , n. y. cty .) (the “mail media litigation”). gawker media and james king are in this defamation suit arising from a blog post regarding journalistic practices used by the website the daily mail, currently pending in the supreme court for the state of new york, county of new york. ”
one of the longest - running dramas in recent media history is finally over. the company formerly known as gawker media has settled with terry bollea, who once went by the moniker hulk hogan. nick denton, gawker' s founder, announced the settlement in a blog post titled
a hard peace .
nick denton, founder of gawker, talks with his legal team before terry bollea, aka hulk hogan, testified against gawker media at the pinellas county courthouse on march 8, 2016, in st petersburg, florida .
this hack may or may not affect the number of comments on gawker media sites — comments which gawker media itself says have “become a prized asset” and contribute importantly to gawker media’s value. commenters, of course, represent many more pageviews than any other readers. (incidentally, denton recently increased the amount he’s offering to buy back shareholders’ stakes from $ 30 per share to $ 35 per share, which means that he’s now valuing the company at $ 35 million. )
in a first for online media, gawker writers join union: the two - way one of the site' s writers says organizing the workers is a sign that digital media are growing up. the ceo says he' s pleased with the vote .
gawker has always been one to violate copyright for fun and profit. gawker is just an ad - click bait site .
i would love to see a lawsuit break gawker…. just locking up everything the owners of gawker have would be enough .
mr. denton started gawker media 12 years ago in his living room. it was initially just two blogs, the snarky — though the term was not yet in popular usage — media gossip site gawker, and a technology blog, gizmodo. the company had two freelance bloggers who were paid $ 12 per post .
gawker media’s editorial staff is forming a union. nearly three - quarters of those employees eligible voted yesterday to unionize through the writers guild of america, east .
unless you’re a fan of italian sports cars or british motoring shows, you may have missed a first glimpse at what gawker media is planning for its future .
nick denton is putting his money where his mouth is, placing a cash bet with rex sorgatz that the redesign of gawker media sites will help grow pageviews .
the incident was a black eye for gawker, an eight - year - old digital media company founded by nick denton that has grown up in new york .
the author and gawker media for defamation. attorneys for the manhattan law firm nesenoff & miltenberg, which is representing the paper, filed a 33 - page lawsuit—
“this entire sorry spectacle spells doom for anybody who aspired to do what we aspired to do, ” former gawker media executive editor john cook told the times .
peter thiel is getting closer to his goal: gawker media has filed for bankruptcy protection and says it eventually plans to find a new owner for the company .
in june 2016, gawker media filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. the move helped the company avoid having its assets seized as it continues to appeal the verdict .
media appeared before the trial court again on june 10, 2016, but the trial court refused to reduce the bond or allow the company to post stock or alternative collateral in lieu of a $ 50 million bond. at a hearing on june 10, 2016, gawker media was denied a complete, temporary stay in florida state court to pursue its appellate rights. instead, the trial court ruled that it would enter an order proposed by the plaintiff that would permit the plaintiff to begin the process of executing on the judgment by securing liens on gawker media’s property. accordingly, gawker media was forced to file its petition for relief under the bankruptcy code on an emergency basis. gawker media is appealing the $ 130 million judgment. ”
gawker: urltoken is the most popularly known of the company’s brands. from its origin as a manhattan centric media blog, it has grown into a national news operation focused on politics and culture. the website has approximately 11. 7 million readers in the u. s. and over 14 million readers globally. approximately 13 staff members at gawker media work on the gawker brand .
by 2002, denton had founded his second company, gawker media, with elizabeth spiers. denton ran the company out of his soho apartment and told a friend
if you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything .
gawker media began as two websites — gawker and gizmodo. the company employed two freelancers who were paid $ 12 for each post .
trump is being represented by lawyer charles harder, who represented professional wrestler hulk hogan in the widely publicized invasion - of - privacy suit against gawker media that led to the company’s bankruptcy and the shutdown of gawker. com .
after the bankruptcy filing, gmg announced that it had entered into an asset purchase agreement to sell all seven of its media brands and “other assets” to ziff davis, the global digital media company. during the sale process, gmg said its media properties will continue to publish and operate as usual .
his contributory infringement claim against gawker media contends that the site refused to remove the links to the screenplay after his attorneys gave them notice. “gawker media knowingly and actively acted as a promoter of copyright pirates, and, itself, did directly cause, contribute to, enable and facilitate copyright infringement, ” tarantino’s suit states .
in an internal memo obtained by the new york times, ziff davis’s chief executive, vivek shah, said that under the terms of a potential agreement, the company would acquire gawker media’s properties but none of its liabilities. when discussing its plans for gawker media, he referred to the benefits of having all of the company’s sites, but conspicuously omitted any mention of gawker. com .
brian knappenberger’s timely documentary serves as an impassioned defense of the news media, though it lacks depth .
mic, like every other digital media company, began to build out a video department this year .
the report points to organizational problems inside the company that contribute to lagging social media promotion and traffic .
he eventually went on to found the tabloid - style media site ratter, which shut down indefinitely in january. that month, daulerio said he was temporarily closing the site, in which gawker media had invested $ 500, 000, “until after the hogan trial” .
the company bought gawker media, which it renamed gizmodo media group, with the hope of broadening the audience to become the voice and reflection of an increasingly diverse young america, with a slightly less intense editorial focus on the trademark skepticism and disdain for powerful interests .
gawker removed a story this afternoon that had caused an uproar across social media. while the story has been removed, reader comments at the landing page still exist .
consumers union, the nonprofit publisher of consumer reports magazine, planned to announce on wednesday that it had acquired urltoken, a popular blog formerly owned by gawker media .
i am proud of what we have achieved at gawker media group, both in our work and our business, never more so than in these last few months .
the editorial employees and management of gawker media and the staff of the wgae all spent very many hours getting here, and we are very thankful it is done .
last june, gawker became the first in a series of digital media companies to seek to unionize. others like the huffington post, vice and salon followed suit .
at the time it filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on friday, gawker media was fighting at least 10 separate lawsuits and was facing the threat of yet another .
univision communications agreed to buy nick denton' s gawker media yesterday with a bid of $ 135 million. (photo: john pendygraft - pool / getty images )
[ update: this story has been updated to accurately reflect the nature of a gawker media story on the architecture of donald trump & apos; s hair. ]
the sale brought an end to the company’s independence, and nick denton, its founder and chief executive, left. univision took down other gawker articles that were involved in litigation. gawker. com, which was at the center of the hulk hogan lawsuit, was shut down. gawker media even lost its name — the sites that univision acquired are now part of the gizmodo media group .
the evidence also suggests the attackers have had access to gawker’s internal systems for a period of time that is at least a month, and that they gained root level access to servers the gawker media web properties are hosted on .
the writers guild of america, east, the union that represents gawker employees, is also involved in writer contract negotiations at vice and the huffington post. here are some of the major details from the gawker media union agreement :
conversations with more than a dozen current and former staffers over the past several weeks detailed a difficult integration that has chipped away the spirit and ethos of gawker media, founded 14 years ago by nick denton as two blogs covering media and tech gossip, which eventually evolved into the fiercely independent, proudly standoffish, endlessly navel - gazing media company targeted by thiel and hogan .
denton personally owns just under 50% of gawker media, a company he founded and bootstrapped in the early 2000s, before facebook was a semi - reliable traffic hose for publishers and banner ads generated meaningful revenue. through a family trust, denton owns 68% of the company. he says insiders own 90% of gawker media .
a source familiar with the situation said gawker ultimately paid the subject of the offending article a tidy undisclosed sum in order to avoid another lawsuit; gawker media president and general counsel heather dietrick declined to confirm or deny such a settlement .
mr. bollea sued gawker media in 2012 over gawker. com’s publication of a black - and - white tape that showed mr. bollea having sex with a woman who was at the time the wife of a friend of his .
yet max read, gawker’s editor - in - chief, practically gloated in a tweet of his own: “given the chance gawker will always report on married c - suite executives of major media companies fucking around on their wives. ”
denton’s also cutting off a possible future income stream, one which is a great hope of many msm publishers—app revenues. the new design is stunning, both in terms of looks and in terms of usability, when viewed in safari for ipad — indeed, it’s referred to within gawker media as “the ipad design. ” given that, there’s no reason for gawker media to develop its own ipad apps. gawker’s sites have always been creatures of the web; attempts to branch out into other media have not fared well. the new design makes it clear that while the sites will look great on the ipad, gawker media has no strategic interest in entering the app space .
narisetti is leading gmg through the media company' s merger with fusion media group, which is owned by the spanish - language juggernaut univision. according to the ceo, the transition has been a success .
under pressure from a $ 140 million legal judgment in favor of hulk hogan, gawker media filed for bankruptcy protection on friday, and is putting itself up for auction .
in cultural and business terms, this is an act of destruction, because urltoken was a popular and profitable digital media property—before the legal bills mounted. gawker will be missed
as the case went to the jury, gawker media released a statement saying that they expect an appeals court will need to resolve the case. it reads in part :
but those were all fun and games until now. the gawker hack was their first big coup as a group. they had been at it for a month. as the news broke and gawker media was scrambling to patch the holes, gnosis sat quietly, “gawking at the media response, ” according to one involved in the aftermath .
gawker media filed for bankruptcy after losing a $ 140 million invasion - of - privacy suit brought by former professional wrestler hulk hogan and funded by tech billionaire peter thiel .
[ 30 ] gawker media, llc v. bollea, 129 so. 3d 1196 (fla. dist. ct. app. jan. 17, 2014) .
gawker built its brand with gossip about the media elite before expanding into a network of sites that cover things such as feminist issues, sports, and celebrities. but the media empire could face bankruptcy if it loses the case and is forced to make the $ 100m payout .
for the time being, then, gawker media remains a media company: it might have some clever technology, but the value is in the media brands, their google juice, and their extensive archives—as well as in the company’s future advertising revenues. denton is letting key employees convert their quarterly bonuses into shares of gawker media at $ 30 apiece, which corresponds to a valuation of $ 30 million; he has also offered to buy back current shareholders’ holdings at the same price. most observers, myself included, reckon that valuation is ridiculously low .
ziff davis and univision were the only two bidders for gawker, which filed for bankruptcy after hulk hogan and peter thiel won a $ 140 million judgment in a privacy case. ziff davis had originally offered $ 90 million for gawker media .
after claiming they had worked for no pay, three former gawker media interns sued denton and the company in 2013, resulting in a three - year legal battle. in march 2016, a judge ruled in favor of gawker and denton .
the report suggests the times consider expanding further into live events. they highlight the success media brands such as
each desk labors over section fronts, but pays little attention to promoting its work on social media. ”
for many years, even by the relatively modest standards of online media. in recent years, the company
this morning, “ the biggest event in gawker media history ” took place: gawker’s sites have officially launched their redesigns. go to urltoken — or urltoken or urltoken or urltoken or the other sites that make up gawker media at the moment — and you’ll see the new page layout that’s been on display in beta - dot form for the past couple of months, brought to life on the properties’ home urls .
teresa thomas v gawker media llc, et al. - former yahoo employee teresa thomas sued gawker, denton, cook and nicholas thompson (former gawker writer now at business insider) for defamation and invasion of privacy after the site reported in 2007 that she dated the head of yahoo’s media operation and was then pushed out of the company after they broke up. thomas is seeking $ 74, 000 in damages .
gawker media, reeling from the $ 140 million awarded to former pro - wrestler hulk hogan in an invasion - of - privacy suit, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, and said it’s being sold to ziff davis, the media company that owns pc magazine and other publications .
back in november, nick denton put gawker media’s fleshbot up for sale. the official announcement, here, is nsfw due to the ads surrounding it — which pretty much explains why fleshbot was being sold: its customers — porn sites — are very, very different from the brand advertisers who supply the money to all the other gawker media properties .
about the cfo of condé nast attempting to pay a gay porn star for a night in a chicago hotel. today the managing partnership of gawker media voted, 4 - 2
let me save you a click you' ll regret: gawker outed a married media exec for hiring a male escort. some things don' t need to be reported .
ormer professional wrestler hulk hogan agreed on wednesday to accept at least $ 31 million from gawker media to settle his lawsuit over publication of a sex tape, court documents showed .
, gawker media lost a gigantic lawsuit over the publication of a sex tape in 2012, brought against it by former pro wrestler hulk hogan, who appeared in the footage .
“gmgi’s principal assets are its 100% ownership of kinja and gawker media. it does not have real estate holdings, significant cash on deposit, or other fixed assets. ”
the new york times reported earlier, citing a person briefed on the plan, that ziffdavis submitted an opening bid of $ 90 million to $ 100 million for gawker media .
gawker media group is putting its properties up for sale after a coordinated barrage of lawsuits intended to put the company out of business and deter its writers from offering critical coverage .
gawker will certainly be an improvement from unvision' s first foray into english - language media, fusion, which began as a television station and accompanying website in oct. 2013
[ 32 ] bolea v. gawker media, llc, case no. 12012447 - ci - 011 (fla. 6th cir. ct. june 8, 2016) .
univision bought gawker media last august in a fire sale. it shuttered the iconic gawker. com, which was viewed as toxic after a court ordered gawker media to pay terry bollea — aka hulk hogan — $ 140 million for publishing a sex tape featuring the wrestler. the lawsuit was secretly funded by peter thiel, the early facebook investor and board member who was publicly outed by the publication as gay years earlier .
gawker editor - in - chief max read had responded to the initial volley of comments, saying
given the chance gawker will always report on married c - suite executives of major media companies f * * cking around on their wives .
the advocate has reached out to nick denton, founder and chief executive of gawker media, for comment. at the publication of this article, gawker is trending on twitter and the post has more than 200, 000 page views and counting .
“finally, gawker media also derives a small portion of its revenue from international licensing of the content from its websites. for example, gawker media licenses the content of its gizmodo website to entities in brazil, europe and japan, and those international entities in turn use the gizmodo content for their own websites using rich site summary (rss) feeds. ”
. but gawker writers were not so discriminating. it was a matter of pride that gawker ran stories that could not be published elsewhere .
campbell did grant gawker a stay, but only under conditions that gawker described as “onerous. ” a person close to gawker said that the conditions of the stay would have given hogan a lien on all of gawker' s assets, allowing him to begin seizing the assets, and would have prohibited gawker from using cash to fund its operations.
gawker media llc ( formerly blogwire , inc. and gawker media , inc. ) was an online media company and blog network . it was founded by nick denton in october 2003 as blogwire , and is based in new york city . incorporated in the cayman islands , as of 2012 , gawker media was the parent company for seven different weblogs and many subsites under them : urltoken , deadspin , lifehacker , gizmodo , kotaku , jalopnik , and jezebel . all gawker articles are licensed on a creative commons attribution-noncommercial license . in 2004 , the company renamed from blogwire , inc. to gawker media , inc. , and to gawker media llc shortly after . in 2016 , the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a direct result of the monetary judgement against the company related to the hulk hogan sex tape lawsuit . on august 16 , 2016 , gawker and all its brands were acquired at auction by univision communications . two days later on august 18 , the company announced that urltoken would cease operations the following week , while its other sites will continue to operate . on september 21 , 2016 , gawker media 's assets except for gawker were purchased by univision communications and have been moved to gizmodo media group . 
gawker media llc (formerly blogwire, inc. and gawker media, inc.) was an online media company and blog network. it was founded by nick denton in october 2003 as blogwire, and is based in new york city. incorporated in the cayman islands, as of 2012, gawker media was the parent company for seven different weblogs and many subsites under them: urltoken, deadspin, lifehacker, gizmodo, kotaku, jalopnik, and jezebel. all gawker articles are licensed on a creative commons attribution-noncommercial license. in 2004, the company renamed from blogwire, inc. to gawker media, inc., and to gawker media llc shortly after. in 2016, the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a direct result of the monetary judgement against the company related to the hulk hogan sex tape lawsuit. on august 16, 2016, gawker and all its brands were acquired at auction by univision communications. two days later on august 18, the company announced that urltoken would cease operations the following week, while its other sites will continue to operate. on september 21, 2016, gawker media's assets except for gawker were purchased by univision communications and have been moved to gizmodo media group.
gawker media llc (formerly blogwire, inc. and gawker media, inc.) was an online media company and blog network. it was founded by nick denton in october 2003 as blogwire, and is based in new york city. incorporated in the cayman islands, as of 2012, gawker media was the parent company for seven different weblogs and many subsites under them: urltoken, deadspin, lifehacker, gizmodo, kotaku, jalopnik, and jezebel. all gawker articles are licensed on a creative commons attribution-noncommercial license. in 2004, the company renamed from blogwire, inc. to gawker media, inc., and to gawker media llc shortly after. in 2016, the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a direct result of the monetary judgement against the company related to the hulk hogan sex tape lawsuit. on august 16, 2016, gawker and all its brands were acquired at auction by univision communications. two days later on august 18, the company announced that urltoken would cease operations the following week, while its other sites will continue to operate. on september 21, 2016, gawker media's assets except for gawker were purchased by univision communications and have been moved to gizmodo media group.