In 2016, Nick Denton’s Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy and sell six of its websites to Univision Communications for $135 million - excluding - after it lost lawsuits funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. Do Gawker … again.”įinnegan was Gawker’s features editor from 2014-15, moving on to become executive editor of tech-focused site The Outline, which BDG acquired in 2019 and then shut down last year. “The world was lost in darkness and desperately needed light. I was living off of Biden Bucks, watching a lot of ‘Love It or List It,’ and wondering what I would do with my life,” she wrote.
After the company came back to her in January, “It was a dark time.
“The current laws of civility mean that no, it can’t be exactly what it once was, but we strive to honor the past and embrace the present,” Finnegan wrote in the reborn site’s welcome post.įinnegan said she initially turned down BDG’s offer to run Gawker last year. Current headlines on Gawker include “Do Justin and Hailey Bieber Hate Each Other?”, “Teigen Tales: House Sold for $17 Million” and “Manga-Loving Teens J’Accused of Misusing Government Dollars.”īDG hired Leah Finnegan, a former Gawker staffer, as the new site’s editor in chief.