Gawker Media is coming under some well-deserved fire this week for an appalling failure of judgment and basic ethical standards. Despite the site's professed commitment to social justice, it cruelly outed a private citizen, becoming party to a gay
Gawker Media said Monday its top editors are resigning after a dispute with its owner regarding a controversial story that was removed from the site last week. Tommy Craggs, executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, editor-in-chief of Gawker.com,
Last week, the Internet outrage machine ate itself. Gawker, the website that has played a leading role in the toxic online culture of public shaming, was buried under a shaming avalanche after it ran
Late last week, Gawker posted an item about a "C-suite executive" at Condé Nast, a married father of three (a married-to-a-woman father of three [I'm old enough to remember when we didn't have to clarify those things]), who made arrangements to spend a
Gawker Media is coming under some well-deserved fire this week for an appalling failure of judgment and basic ethical standards. Despite the site's professed commitment to social justice, it cruelly outed a private citizen, becoming party to a gay