Will Leitch reveals Gawker originally tried to hire Bill Simmons to run Deadspin
Deadspin ended up turning Simmons himself into a target of the site.
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Former Deadspin and Gawker editor Tommy Craggs joins HuffPost
After stints running Deadspin and Gawker Media, and serving as Slate's politics editor, Tommy Craggs is now a senior enterprise editor at HuffPost.
Deadspin posts court docs quoting their Mitch Williams posts Univision took down
Univision’s decision as part of their acquisition of Gawker Media to take down six posts that were the...
Gawker.com to cease operation next week
After losing a lengthy trial brought forth by Hulk Hogan that caused the company to file for bankruptcy and...
Gawker founder Nick Denton files for personal bankruptcy over Hogan judgement
The Hulk Hogan lawsuit continues to have impacts on Gawker Media (the parent company of Gawker, Deadspin and...
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is reportedly funding Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit
The idea of a shadowy third party funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker was initially called “rather conspiracy-theory...