#gawkermedia — Public Fediverse posts
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Hulk Hogan was an era-defining American brand: big, brash and bizarre | Jesse Hassenger https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/24/hulk-hogan-wrestler-american-brand #Television&radio #UStelevision #GawkerMedia #Television #PeterThiel #Wrestling #Culture #Film
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Hulk Hogan’s sex tape trial pitted the First Amendment against the privacy rights of celebs
While he may be better remembered as a pro wrestler, perhaps Hulk Hogan’s most notable victory was inside…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #AU #Australia #Entertainment #firstamendment #gawkermedia #hulkhogan #privacylaws #wrestlingmania
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This month's Dispatch #podcast explores the historic + current challenges in #digitalmedia and how emerging media models have sprung up as a result.
Gather writer Gita Jackson draws from her experience launching independent video game site @AftermathSiteUnofficial and reminisces with Molly Osberg about the tension between good content and #adrevenue while working at #GawkerMedia in its heyday.
Listen below and please consider sharing if it resonates with you!
https://gather.co/dispatch/the-independent-digital-media-present/
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CW: Long thread/27
Almost without exception, things that are good for oligarchs are bad for the rest of us. Jezebel's tale *starts* with an oligarch imposing his will on millions of other people. Jezebel began life as a #GawkerMedia site, beloved of millions of readers, destroyed when FBI informant #PeterThiel secretly funded #HulkHogan's lawsuit against the publisher in a successful bid to put them out of business to retaliate for their unfavorable coverage of Thiel:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/
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CW: Mourning/reflecting on Jezebel's shutting down
I'm still processing the news that #Jezebel is shutting down. Tbh, part of me is surprised it lasted this long, given the decline of text-based media on the internet and Peter Thiel's attempts to kill #GawkerMedia.
Yes, sometimes it was too snarky and superficial. It wasn't always as #feminist as it claimed, but it had solid coverage of #ReproductiveRights and sometimes it was good for a laugh. Plus, it defined my generation of #Millennial #women, for better or worse, in a way that I'm still trying to understand a decade plus later. I learned a lot from the Jezebel writers over the years, some good lessons and some not-so-good. I wrote a huge paper in graduate school about the cultural significance of #LadyBlogs, including Jezebel, #XOJane, #TheHairpin and other publications that are now long gone. Now I'm left wondering what the cultural significance of Jezebel's demise is. Online media and online spaces are so often ephemeral.
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/09/jezebel-news-shut-down-layoffs-go-media
Jezebel is being shutdown, after 16 years, by its parent company because "our business model … did not align with Jezebel’s" according to the CEO.
The Writers Guild of America-East condemned the decision, saying that a well run company would have moved away from an advertising based business model, instead of shuttering a "pillar of fearless journalism".
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Gizmodo: Kill More Reveals Its Sci-Fi Twist in This Exclusive Comics Preview https://gizmodo.com/kill-more-comic-preview-sci-fi-murder-mystery-idw-1850797033?utm_source=regular #scottbryanwilson #mikeehrmantraut #mwanawaparker #maxalanfuchs #gawkermedia #winkmurder #aaronaira #colonia #wilson #io9
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Stick to Sports? No Way. Deadspin Journalists Quit en Masse. - At least eight writers and editors resigned on the day after the firing of the interim editor in c... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/business/media/deadspin-sports-staff.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #appointmentsandexecutivechanges #computersandtheinternet #writingandwriters #newsandnewsmedia #g/omediainc #gawkermedia #deadspin