Gawker Media Launches Video Site Gawker.TV

You know times are on the up when Nick Denton starts launching new blogs instead of flogging them off or shuttering them, and today Gawker Media turned the tide of the last 18 months with a new ... continue

NYT subtly frowns on Deadspin’s ESPN horndog dossier shenanigans

A new media campaign retaliating against ESPN for scandal related subterfuge got some old media attention today. Deadspin, a Gawker media blog, gets oodles of sports and sportscaster news related tips and rumors in their inbox. Back at ... continue

Eric Dane sues Gawker over McSteamy sex tape

Actor Eric Dane has filled suit against Nick Denton's Gawker Media over Gawker's publication of the now infamous "McSteamy" sex tape. According to TMZ, "Dane and and [partner Rebecca] Gayheart filed the lawsuit today in L.A. County Superior ... continue

Gizmodo, Gawker, i0, Jezebel, Consumerist up and down all day

Gawker media blogs and Consumerist have been experiencing intermittent outages today. "Server issues" is being bandied about as a cause- Consumerist, a blog that was sold by Gawker Media in 2008, indicated as such at around 11:30am EST ... continue

How Gawker Media sells itself

Gawker Media has always been an interesting sales proposition in terms of breadth. While there are solid, safe titles like Lifehacker and Gizmodo, there's the gossip sites and even the lite porn site Fleshbot. So how do ... continue

Owen Thomas leaves Valleywag for NBC

Valleywag Editor Owen Thomas is leaving the Gawker Media empire for greener pastures at NBC, according naturally to Valleywag. Thomas joined Valleywag in 2007 from Business 2.0, and oversaw the demise of the site from a multi-person dedicated ... continue

Denton shuts Defamer as stand alone site, now part of Gawker

Gawker Media's Nick Denton has shut Defamer as a standalone site. Defamer wasn't named when Denton started making cuts to the network in November (we speculated it might be cut), but was said to be close to a ... continue

Consumers Union Acquires The Consumerist

The Consumers Union, the US based independent, nonprofit testing and information service for consumers has acquired Gawker Media blog The Consumerist. The Consumerist, a blog dedicated to exposing consumer scams and bad company practices went up for sale ... continue

Huffington Post’s Syndication tricks come back to bite them

For most of this year, possibly longer, The Huffington Post has been syndicating articles on their site with links back to the original source. The general idea is to take 2-3 paragraphs from the original source, then ... continue

Jossip Network shutters Mollygood, Stereohyped

The Jossip Blog Network has closed two long established blogs: Mollygood and Stereohyped. Network owner David Hauslaib said in a note to staff that the sites were shutting due to the broader economic climate going in to 2009. ... continue

Report: Gawker’s “Consumerist” Closing In On Sale

Gawker Media's The Consumerist site is close to finalizing a sale, according to a recently published report. The Consumerist, which was put on the auction block as part of Gawker's overall cuts last month, is currently in "preliminary ... continue

Gawker Media ad revenue up 39%, so Denton fires more people

Among the doom and gloom of the economic crisis and recession there's been no stronger advocate of a worst case scenario outcome for new media than Nick Denton. Over several essays, Denton has argued that online advertising ... continue