6/2/2023 0 Comments Gawker relaunchThe second objective is to relaunch Gawker under the "stewardship of former editors, new writers, and an entirely membership-funded model." If it's not under the domain name, they will choose a new name, but the site will still be modeled off of Gawker. First, to keep Gawker's archives online, which consists of a "couple hundred thousand articles," according to Spiers. Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, sits in court during his trial against Gawker Media, in St Petersburg, Florida "As far as I know, he's completely moved on (and barred in the bankruptcy agreement from participating in the sale)." -James Del DecemRe-launching Gawker " Nick Denton is not involved, I haven't spoken to him in almost a year and he is currently working on his new project in Europe," Del told Business Insider. "First I had heard of it," Denton told Business Insider in an email on Monday. One person who's not involved is Gawker founder and former publisher Nick Denton. "As such, we don't have a named editor of yet, though as the campaign progresses we plan to roll out more information about how that person will be selected." "We can't disclose the names of the former employees or editors as most of them have other jobs for the time being, but I can say that I've spoken with a few former EICs and received their support, over a dozen former employees and editors, and several "friends of Gawker" as well," Del told Business Insider in an email. I run my own company, so there's no risk that I'm going to fire myself for being involved," Spiers told Business Insider in an email.ĭel told Business Insider that Cody Brown, founder of IRL VR and the former CEO and co-founder of Scroll Kit (which he sold to Word Press in 2014), is also advising the foundation. "I'm the only name involved because everyone else has a day job working for another company. It's being led by James Del, a former advertising executive at Gawker, and also involves Elizabeth Spiers, Gawker's first editor, among what they say is a dozen "Gawker Media alumni." Spiers will advise and will join the Gawker Foundation's board of directors. The Kickstarter campaign, which is backed by a group calling itself "The Gawker Foundation," is looking for $500,000. Billionaire investor Peter Thiel secretly financed Hogan's lawsuit. Gawker Media was forced to sell sites such as Gizmodo after it was forced into bankruptcy after Hulk Hogan was awarded $140 million in damages stemming from a Gawker news article. The reason that the archives and domain name are for sale is because they were not included in the sale of the other Gawker Media properties to Univision in 2016. "We're a group of former Gawker Media employees across editorial, tech, and business, and we want to put in our own bid to buy it back," according to the Kickstarter page. The non-profit project is looking to not only keep the site's archive of blog posts alive, but also aims to re-launch the site. Gawker founder Nick Denton is not involved.Ī group of former Gawker employees launched a Kickstarter on Monday to buy back the domain name and archives of the pioneering blog, which ceased publishing in 2016.ceased publication in 2016 and was not included in the sale to Univision.Former Gawker employees have launched a Kickstarter to buy.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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