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A day after the explosive story was published, Gawker’s top. Goldberg snapped it up for a paltry $1.35 million in a bankruptcy court auction in 2018, and positioned first Carson Griffith, and later Dan Peres, at the helm…though things never got off the ground either time.īDG has declined to comment on when the site will raise its head again, nor do we know of any other staffing hires yet. Leah Finnegan worked at Gawker for one year during its heyday as a writer and features editor before taking a buyout in July 2015. She was previously the editor of The Outline and has worked at The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Gawker (first version). The site has remained dormant since then-owner and founder Nick Denton famously lost a $140 million lawsuit after publishing Hulk Hogan’s sex tape. Leah Finnegan is the editor in chief of Gawker. But Bryan and I have talked about Gawker before and I told him the first thing he’s not gonna like is that the Gawker team will want to unionize. As per Keith Kelly of the New York Post, Spiers tweeted: “She’s great and I hope it works. Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of Gawker back in 2002/03, praised the hiring of Finnegan-but also predicted clashes between BDG owner Bryan Goldberg and the incoming editorial staff. Bryan Goldberg, the CEO and Founder of Bustle Digital Group, and Leah Finnegan, The editor in chief of Gawker, at their offices in Manhattan, New York.

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