{"id":9338,"date":"2018-09-11T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2018-09-16T12:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T19:19:34","slug":"gawker-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/11\/gawker-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"GAWKER Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

from VARIETY<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Gawker Set to Relaunch Under New Owner Bryan Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE)<\/h1>\n

Amanda Hale hired as publisher for new iteration of the media gossip blog<\/h2>\n

by TODD SPANGLER<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Gawker<\/p>\n

Gawker<\/a> will rise from the ashes in a new iteration of the website to be launched next year, Variety<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n

The reborn Gawker<\/a> comes under the ownership of Bryan Goldberg<\/a>, founder and CEO of Bustle Digital Group, who was the winning bidder for the remaining assets of Gawker Media in July<\/a>. Goldberg paid $1.35 million for the media gossip blog, which\u00a0has been dormant for over two years after Gawker Media was sued into bankruptcy by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.<\/p>\n

In a memo to Bustle staff Tuesday obtained by Variety<\/em>, Goldberg said he has hired Amanda Hale as the new publisher of Gawker. Based in New York, Hale most recently was chief revenue officer of The Outline, the culture website founded by Joshua Topolsky (who previously worked at Bloomberg Media and The Verge) that\u00a0recently laid off one-fourth of its staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Goldberg is targeting the Gawker relaunch for early 2019. \u201cWe won\u2019t recreate Gawker exactly as it was, but we will build upon Gawker\u2019s legacy and triumphs \u2014 and learn from its missteps,\u201d he wrote in the memo. \u201cIn so doing, we aim to create something new, vibrant, highly relevant, and worth visiting daily.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from VARIETY Gawker Set to Relaunch Under New Owner Bryan Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE) Amanda Hale hired as publisher for new iteration of the media gossip blog by TODD SPANGLER Gawker will rise from the ashes in a new iteration of the website to be launched next year, Variety has learned. The reborn Gawker comes under the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}