Former British-American online media company and blog network
Gawker Media LLC
Formerly
Blogwire, Inc. (2003–04)
Gawker Media, Inc. (2004)
Company type
Privately held company
Founded
October 9, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-10-09) in Budapest, Hungary
Founder
Nick Denton
Defunct
September 21, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-09-21)
Fate
Filed for United States Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; acquired by Univision Communications; sold to Great Hill Partners
Successors
Gizmodo Media Group
G/O Media
Headquarters
New York City
,
U.S.
Key people
Nick Denton (founder)
Elizabeth Spiers (founder, Gawker.com)
Gina Trapani (founder, Lifehacker)
Subsidiaries
Gawker
Deadspin
Lifehacker
Gizmodo
Kotaku
io9
Jalopnik
Jezebel
Website
gawker.com
Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American internet media company and blog network. It was founded by Nick Denton in October 2003 as Blogwire, and was based in New York City. Incorporated in the Cayman Islands,[1] as of 2012, Gawker Media was the parent company for seven different weblogs and many subsites under them: Gawker.com, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, and Jezebel. All Gawker articles are licensed on a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license.[2] In 2004, the company renamed from Blogwire, Inc. to Gawker Media, Inc., and to Gawker Media LLC shortly after.[3][4]
In 2016, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection[5] after damages of $140 million were awarded against the company as a result of the Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit.[6] On August 16, 2016, all of the Gawker Media brands, assets except for Gawker.com, were acquired at auction by Univision Communications for $135 million.[7] Two days later on August 18, the company announced that Gawker.com would cease operations the following week, while its other sites will continue to operate.[8]
On September 21, 2016, Univision moved all of the Gawker Media properties to their newly created Gizmodo Media Group.[9][10]
Gizmodo was subsequently acquired by Great Hill Partners along with The Onion in 2019 under the G/O Media Inc. umbrella, reportedly for less than $50 million.[11][12][13]
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^"Gawker Media Chapter 11 Petition" (PDF). PacerMonitor. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
^Ember, Sydney (2016-06-10). "Gawker Said to Plan Sale After $140 Million Award to Hulk Hogan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
^"Univision to Buy Gawker Media for $135M". The Hollywood Reporter. 16 August 2016. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
^Trotter, J.K. "Gawker.com to End Operations Next Week". Gawker.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
^Spangler, Todd (September 21, 2016). "Univision Hires News Corp's Raju Narisetti to Oversee Sites Acquired From Gawker Media". Variety. Archived from the original on March 25, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
^Jarvey, Natalie (21 September 2016). "Univision Hires News Corp Vet to Lead Former Gawker Media Sites". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
^Rana, Akanksha; Sharma, Vibhuti (8 April 2019). "Great Hill Partners buys Gizmodo and The Onion from Univision". Reuters. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 6 November 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
^Mullin, Benjamin (8 April 2019). "Great Hill Partners Agrees to Acquire Gizmodo Media Group". wsj.com. Wall Street journal. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
^"Gizmodo Media Group is sold to a private equity firm, and Univision is out of the English-language website business". Archived from the original on 2020-07-31. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
All Gawker articles are licensed on a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. In 2004, the company renamed from Blogwire, Inc. to Gawker Media...
2002, Gawker was the flagship blog for Denton's GawkerMedia. GawkerMedia also managed other blogs such as Jezebel, io9, Deadspin and Kotaku. Gawker had...
writer Sam Biddle, executive editor John Cook, and Gawker founder and CEO Nick Denton. GawkerMedia responded that, "These claims to have invented email...
and science fiction website. It was originally launched as part of the GawkerMedia network run by Nick Denton, and runs on the Kinja platform. Gizmodo also...
had only two internet sites — Gawker (a news and gossip site) and Gizmodo (a gadgets and technology blog). GawkerMedia blogs expanded to include Jezebel...
In 2015". Kotaku. GawkerMedia. "PS Vita Is Not Dead: Here Are Some Games You Should Wait For". Tech Times. June 29, 2015. "Media Create Sales: 9/4/17...
acquisition of GawkerMedia in August 2016; Gizmodo Media Group was subsequently founded to house the Gawker acquisitions, operating under the Fusion Media Group...
strategy. In November 2016, Lawyers for Gawker filed a motion to resolve the lawsuit. Under the terms of the motion, Gawker was not required to pay any financial...
2011). "Official Minecraft Coming to iPhone, iPad, Android". Kotaku. GawkerMedia. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 22 February...
Kirk (July 29, 2014). "The Last of Us: The Kotaku Review". Kotaku. GawkerMedia. Archived from the original on October 15, 2015. Retrieved October 19...
student and Gawker intern/guest editor in New York who moved to D.C. for the Wonkette position. (In late 2007, Pareene moved to the flagship Gawker site and...
joined with former Gawker editor Choire Sicha to launch Sploid, a Drudge Report-inspired, "tabloid-emulating" website for GawkerMedia, devoted to breaking...
Stephen (11 June 2012). "27 of the Best Video Game Ideas from E3". Kotaku. GawkerMedia. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012...
Kotaku. GawkerMedia. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2024. "Kotaku's 2008 Game of the Year". Kotaku. GawkerMedia. 5 January...
v. Gawker. On August 16, 2016, Univision Communications purchased Gawker for $135 million. The purchase did not include the flagship website Gawker. It...
(July 22, 2015). "Smash Bros. Creator Remembers Satoru Iwata". Kotaku. GawkerMedia. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved July 26,...
"Five Ways You Can Make Grand Theft Auto V More Immersive". Kotaku. GawkerMedia. Archived from the original on 6 August 2014. Krupa, Daniel (4 November...
Specs". Kotaku. Gawker. Retrieved January 5, 2011. Plunkett, Luke (January 6, 2010). "Let's See The PlayStation Phone In Action". Kotaku. Gawker. Retrieved...
their respective national flags. Other platforms such as YouTube and GawkerMedia followed in officially supporting hashtags, and real-time search aggregators...
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