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[Pathfinder]

After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign against the company.

Staffers will soon be assigned to other editorial roles, either at one of the other six sites or elsewhere within Univision.

EDIT: Kotaku will remain safe. Sorry everyone, my misunderstanding.

SOURCE: http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712

 

[piratethingy]

Naturally, we hope Jason Schreier and all the other writers at Kotaku land on their feet safely.

SOURCE: http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712

I'm confused, is Kotaku not one of the other six they're keeping?

 

[Omikaru]

I'm confused, is Kotaku not one of the other six they're keeping?

From what it seems, it looks like just Gawker is closing, not Kotaku.

 

[thekonamicode]

Kotaku isn't closing down.

 

[purpletentacle]

I'm confused, is Kotaku not one of the other six they're keeping?

Yeah, only Gawker.com is being mothballed. The remainder of Gawker's properties are moving to Univision.

 

[Pathfinder]

I'm confused, is Kotaku not one of the other six they're keeping?

For now, it seems. But we didn't exactly expect Univision to cut Gawker when they purchased the property either.

 

[21XX]

I'm sure Jason will stay safe by continuing to work at Kotaku like normal.

 

[purpletentacle]

For now, it seems. But we didn't exactly expect Univision to cut Gawker when they purchased the property either.

Who is we? Most insiders and critics figured Gawker.com would be the first to go based on its toxic reputation (of late)

 

[samuraidino]

Gawker.com is being shut down.

Pretty much all the other sites in the gawker network are being kept alive.

The Gawker name is legitimately toxic now at this point (And deservedly so) the other sites can go on because they essentially can be completely stripped of the gawker name and continue on buisness as usual.

 

[jschreier]

For now, it seems. But we didn't exactly expect Univision to cut Gawker when they purchased the property either.

We did, actually. But the other six sites will go on under new ownership.

 

[Pathfinder]

We did, actually. But the other six sites will go on under new ownership.

Good to know.

Sorry everyone, was a misunderstanding.

 

[PROh1bited]

Kotaku is safe. It's just Gawker, which already has a thread in OT.

 

[piratethingy]

For now, it seems. But we didn't exactly expect Univision to cut Gawker when they purchased the property either.

edit: has been clarified

 

[21XX]

We did, actually. But the other six sites will go on under new ownership.

Can the new ownership put a limit on adjective use in headlines over at io9?

 

[True Fire]

We did, actually. But the other six sites will go on under new ownership.

That's fantastic. Then nothing of value was lost.

 

[Alebrije]

El Kotaku is safe

 

[Mivey]

I guess the moral here is: Don't mess with Hulk Hogan unless you can easily afford to pay 140 million in damages.

 

[Riposte]

We did, actually. But the other six sites will go on under new ownership.

What about The Cuck?

 

[Pathfinder]

I guess the moral here is: Don't mess with Hulk Hogan unless you can easily afford to pay 140 million in damages.

Still in appeals. I doubt he'll get anything close to that after all is said and done.

 

[QFNS]

I guess the moral here is: Don't mess with Hulk Hogan unless you can easily afford to pay 140 million in damages.

Or don't mess with Silicon Valley billionaires who are willing to Fund Hogan's legal fees.
One or the other maybe, but never both.

 

[CertifiedFP]

Well of course Gawker.com is being shut down. It's the website that got the company into the whole Hogan mess in the first place with its irresponsible tabloid journalism.

Whether or not it's tabloid content is being folded into the other sites, we shall see. Probably for the better that it isn't though, before that kind of content gets the whole company fucked again.