![]() “Chet Haze is the only Instagram I look at, also.” Haze/Hanks has three posts. “But he hasn’t been on Twitter lately, so my day is not quite as bright anymore,” Nolan says. Still he says he’s down with and, hilariously, Tom Hanks’s pseudo-rapper son, Chet Haze - er, Chester M. I follow idiots that I work with,” Nolan says. “Honestly, I’m really bad on Twitter: I just follow people I know. I ask whether he gets story ideas from Twitter. Media figures say Gawker, owned by a gay man himself, has gone too far in outing a magazine executive in a lurid story involving a gay porn star and money for sex. He also routinely checks out (more on that later). Nolan also points to Abnormal Returns as a financial news source, along with Brooklyn real estate blog, Brownstoner, and the neighborhood-centric DNA Info. Then, he pauses, and it’s 2015 again when he tells me how long it takes him to click through all of those sites. “I look at those every morning,” he tells me from the Gawker offices in New York, rattling off the old-school sources. Still, he keeps grounded, as he keeps surveying the news for Gawker’s trademark takes: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Advertising Age, USA Today, Insider Higher Ed and Bloomberg. These texts were interesting, but not enough, in my view.Hamilton Nolan has been at Gawker since 2008, so he’s seen a lot of changes at the company - including its recent unionization and upheaval over the controversial posting (and consequential removal) of an article outing the CFO of Condé Nast. They have to reveal something meaningful. It is not enough for them simply to be true. But this decision will establish a clear standard for future stories. Peres, who served as editor-in-chief of Condé Nasts Details for 15 years, is expected to relaunch the site later this year. “David Geithner’s embarrassment will not be eased. Dan Peres to edit Gawker Bustle Digital Group has announced the appointment of Dan Peres to editor-in-chief of recent acquisition, effective April 1. “This action will not turn back the clock,” he said. Gawker is currently fighting a $100 million lawsuit filed by Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, for publishing a leaked video that showed the wrestling legend having sex with the ex-wife of wrestler and radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge.Īlso Read: Gawker Media Editorial Staff Vote in Favor of Unionizing With Writers Guild of Americaĭenton acknowledged that removing the post will only go so far to mitigate its effects. ![]() “I can’t defend yesterday’s story as I can our coverage of Bill O’Reilly, Hillary Clinton or Hulk Hogan.” “I believe this public mood reflects a growing recognition that we all have secrets, and they are not all equally worthy of exposure,” he said. Some of our own writers, proud to work at one of the only independent media companies, are equally appalled,” he wrote. The post sparked heavy criticism for outing the executive, both internally and from outsiders. In July 2015, Gawker staff writer Jordan Sargent published an article attempting to 'out' a married executive at Condé Nast, over a gay porn stars alleged text correspondence. “Not only is criticism of yesterday’s piece from readers intense, but much of what they’ve said has resonated. Condé Nast executive prostitution claims. But according to Denton, the media landscape has changed since the site’s founding in 2003. Gawker founder Nick Denton said on Friday that the post had been taken down, saying that publishing it 'is a decision I regret. ![]()
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