Tammie Teclemariam, Contributing Writer.Gawker always existed on the strengths of its writers and editors, and this group is really, really good. My first order of business, after deleting all the old posts I wrote, was hiring all my favorite writers and editors. I was also willing to do it, which not many people can say. I suppose my selling points as a potential editor-in-chief of Gawker were that I had previously worked at Gawker and Bustle and was unemployed. Bustle immediately shut down The Outline when the pandemic started, for which I hold no ill will, because The Outline, while a very special site, made no money. From there I went on to be executive editor of The Outline, which was acquired by Bustle in 2019. Why did Bustle Digital Group want me to edit Gawker in the first place? Well, I was Gawker’s features editor from 2014 to 2015, before I was asked to leave because I live-tweeted a meeting during which Gawker founder Nick Denton hit his head on a lamp. The world was lost in darkness and desperately needed light. Sometimes I would read old Gawker posts just to see if I still had the ability to laugh. I laughed a lot when I previously worked at Gawker, and I laughed a lot reading Gawker. I thought about how I missed laughing at things on the internet. Could I edit Gawker? Should I edit Gawker? Why not edit Gawker? I was living off of Biden Bucks, watching a lot of Love It or List It, and wondering what I would do with my life.
#GAWKER GOING OUT OF BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL#
It could not be brought back because it could never be what it once was, and also because what it once was was sued out of existence by a professional wrestler five years ago.Įver persistent, Bustle, which bought the shell of Gawker in 2018, approached me again in January. Who in God’s name would want to edit a website that was cratered by an evil tech lord and sullied by a botched relaunch? The Gawker name was toxic, but also weirdly revered an intractable combination. When Bustle Digital Group first approached me to revive Gawker last year, I said absolutely no way in hell.
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