Here are some numbers to remember its life by." Nieman Journalism Lab. Here are some numbers to remember its life by. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 22 Aug. By 2012 the site posted just under 10,000 times, or less than half the rate of 3 years earlier. The fact that Gawker stopped paying writers per post sometime around this time might have had an impact as well.
Gawker hypocrisy plus#
The decrease in headcount, plus a change in traffic patterns away from direct, homepage traffic, decreased the ability and incentive to post as frequently. By the end of that year, with the market starting to tank, Gawker laid off about 15% of its editorial staff. This ludicrous posting rate came at the tail end of the housing boom. Laurito’s explanation for that peak, and its subsequent decline: 22 on that list.)Īt its publishing peak in 2008, was publishing over 70 posts per day. A lucky 420 people (including groups and bots) have contributed posts to and its sub-blogs, with site veteran Hamilton Nolan topping the most-prolific list at 14,286 posts. This is the final act in what Thiel wished to present, and succeeded in. In its lifetime, published 202,370 posts (3,311 were automated White House pool reports). Image by Jim Cooke A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Its most frequently covered topics concerned media (another caveat: due to misspellings and other tagging errors, actual numbers are probably higher): Gawker’s head of data and analytics Josh Laurito shared a post today with some numbers on as of Sunday morning (with the caveat that the site began publishing before reliable web analytics software, and that the metrics include stories from, which Gawker acquired in 2010). Gawker’s writers are being folded into other sites like Deadspin, Gizmodo, and Jezebel, or into other parts of Univision (though there’s no guarantee many of them will want to stay). Univision, the new owner of ’s sibling sites, likely decided it didn’t want to deal with the Gawker Media flagship’s baggage. “I saw Gawker pioneer a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with the public interest.LINK: ➚ | Posted by: Shan Wang | August 22, 2016īy now you’ll have heard that after 14 years, will publish no more. “It’s less about revenge and more about specific deterrence,” Thiel said in the interview. The newspaper said he was driven to mount a clandestine war against Gawker due to a 2007 article published by Gawker ’s Valleywag blog, headlined “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people” and articles about his friends that “ruined people’s lives for no reason.” Thiel confirmed this week in an interview with The New York Times that he had paid $10 million in legal expenses to finance several lawsuits brought by others, including the Hogan lawsuit, against Gawker Media.
A Florida judge upheld the verdict on Wednesday. Hogan won a $140 million verdict in March in a defamation suit against Gawker Media after it posted parts of a sex tape showing Hogan with a friend’s wife.
We call upon Peter Thiel to reveal all of the lawsuits he has funded.” “It is imperative that the public know the extent of his efforts to silence the press. “We cannot let Peter Thiel heedlessly destroy one of the most original, intrepid digital media companies in modern journalism - regardless of whether or not we like everything that gets published there,” the guild said.
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