Nation Aug 18 Gawker to shut down after nearly 14 years Gawker's 14 years on the Internet will come to an end, the website announced Thursday. By Corinne Segal
Nation Jun 11 Watch Gawker up for sale after Hulk Hogan suit Three months after Gawker Media lost an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit brought by former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, the website is offering itself up for sale. Edmund Lee, managing editor of the new site "Recode," which specializes in covering the tech industry,… By PBS News Hour
Nation Jun 10 Gawker Media files for bankruptcy, plans sale of company Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday and put itself up for auction as it continues a legal battle with former wrestler Hulk Hogan. By Corinne Segal
Nation May 26 What does the billionaire-funded Gawker suit mean for media? Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire, revealed this week that he funded Hulk Hogan's winning $140 million lawsuit against Gawker Media. By Joshua Barajas, Corinne Segal
Jun 06 Watch 3:37 Is Gawker’s vote to unionize a turning point for Internet culture? By PBS News Hour For the first time ever, workers at a major online media outlet, Gawker Media, voted earlier this week in a landslide to unionize. Gabriel Arana, senior media editor at The Huffington Post, joins Alison Stewart to discuss. Continue watching
Jan 27 Quentin Tarantino sues Gawker over leaked film script By Zachary Treu Film director Quentin Tarantino filed a copyright lawsuit against blog network Gawker Media and others for "allegedly facilitating the dissemination of copies" of "The Hateful Eight," an unproduced screenplay that was leaked to the public last week, according to Te… Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch Gawker Hacking Exposes Some Web Users’ Bad Password Habits Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, was hacked over the weekend and information for about 1.3 million users was made public. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan about the cyber attack and what it means for… Continue watching
Dec 12 Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone… Continue reading