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Bustle Gawker, the general news and media gossip blog that was sued into bankruptcy by Hulk Hogan and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, is set to relaunch next year. The rights to the Gawker brand and its archive of blog posts were recently purchased by Bryan Goldberg, founder and CEO of Bustle Digital Group, who […]
Enlarge / Want to buy these official The Onion mugs? They’re only $ 15. Owning the full Onion and Gawker portfolios, on the other hand, may cost more. (credit: The Onion) After a rapid acquisition of English-speaking online properties in 2016, Univision Media Co. is reversing course. On Tuesday, the Hispanic America-focused media company announced its […]
The great “privacy” or “freedom of speech” debate that played out during the Hulk Hogan Gawker lawsuit may be getting a feature film adaptation. Or at least a limited TV series. It was a scandal that rocked the journalism and wrestling worlds — two communities who don’t usually overlap. In 2012, Gawker published extracts from […]
Bollea v. Gawker isn’t just one of the most consequential lawsuits in the history of modern American media. It’s also probably the strangest. 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 media crowd. The […]
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Enlarge / LAS VEGAS – JUNE 11: Greg Scherick (L) at the CineVegas film festival in 2006. Scherick has sued Gizmodo Media Group, claiming that an article in Jezebel about his project “Superstar Machine” was libelous. (credit: Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for CineVegas) An Oregon life coach, represented by the lawyer who won a […]
Enlarge / Nick Denton during the trial against Gawker Media in March 2016. (credit: John Pendygraft-Pool/Getty Images) AUSTIN, Texas—Few can claim to have built an online media business from the ground up. Gawker’s Nick Denton may stand alone in having built such an empire, and then lost it totally. Denton’s company Gawker Media went bankrupt […]
