![]() “The bottom feeders at Gawker are going under. That was at the end of a long and painful process of the site’s parent company’s being sued into bankruptcy in a well-funded scheme, though not everyone was sad. “The greatest compliment one could ever pay to a Gawker writer is fearlessness - the willingness to say what needed to be said irrespective of the consequences,” wrote its founder, Nick Denton, on the publication’s last day, almost exactly five years ago. The work kept me suspended in a state of anxiety that I have also tried to replicate for the rest of my life. I tried working there twice, never lasting more than a year. It’s something about working quickly and aggressively, in public, with chaotic or unintelligible leadership, and with little infrastructure to cushion the disaster when a story or a joke inevitably is done wrong. (Most recovered!) This isn’t because working at Gawker is special or as stressful as military life or nursing. ![]() Working at Gawker broke many people in many different ways. A small class of people were obsessed with it because the site covered people they knew or knew about, and those people all worked in media so Gawker got written about really quite a lot. It had an expansive coverage mission and a staff with an obsessive need to be unpredictable. Gawker was a website that most recently existed from 2002 to 2016, and its most enduring creation is its own mythology. Bottom: Olivia Craighead, Leah Finnegan, George Civeris. Middle: Darcie Wilder, Claire Carusillo, Allie Jones, Sarah Hagi. Zhang, Brandy Jensen, Tammie Teclemariam, Jocelyn Silver, Tarpley Hitt. All Rights Reserved.Top row (from left): Kelly Conaboy, Jenny G. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ![]() Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. We believe this suit is meritless and we plan to contest it vigorously." Any litigation over the story should have been brought against Gawker Media in bankruptcy court-not against Gizmodo Media Group or the individual writers. "The story in question was published on May 10, 2016-months before our acquisition of certain Gawker Media assets, including Jezebel. "This case is nothing more than another obvious attempt by Charles Harder to intimidate journalists," a spokesperson for Gizmodo Media Group said in a statement provided to CNNMoney. Jezebel, the female-focused blog that was previously a part of the Gawker Media network and that now partly comprises Gizmodo Media Group, published a story in the spring of 2016 that called Scherick's therapy group, known as Superstar Machine, a "cult.that preys on its members' insecurities, exploits them financially, and isolates them from friends and family."Īs laid out in the complaint, the story included accounts of former Superstar Machine members, suggesting that Scherick especially preyed on women in creative fields. ![]()
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