Univision’s Isaac Lee - the chief news, entertainment, and digital officer for Univision Communications - is expected to speak with Gawker Media staff in their New York office tomorrow. All Gawker Media websites, including Gizmodo and Lifehacker, were down.
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“The near-term plans for ’s coverage, as well as the site’s archives, have not yet been finalized,” site staff wrote.Įmployees of other Gawker Media sites tell Consumerist that no official word about their properties has yet come from Univision one way or the other. Also, if you are using Hacker Typer in any of your projects, videos or images, feel free to reach out It’s amazing to see what happens when people’s creativity interacts with this site. The one-time internet media stalwart announced it would be ending operations next week, roughly 14 years after its founding. Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy in June after a judge ordered it to pay 140. Gawker - until 2008, the parent company of Consumerist, and the former employer of two current Consumerist staffers - had its assets acquired by Univision for $135 million in a bankruptcy auction this week.Īccording to Gawker, the purchase included subsidiary sites Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, and Lifehacker but left the fate of Gawker itself unclear. Gawker was a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit in and for Pinellas County, Florida, delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016.In the suit, Terry Eugene Bollea, known professionally as Hulk Hogan, sued Gawker Media, publisher of the Gawker website, and several Gawker employees and Gawker-affiliated entities, for posting portions of a sex tape of. will shut down next week, as the company's other sites are in the process of being sold to Univision. And while the company likely has plans in mind for at least some of what it paid for, the flagship site isn’t going with: is shutting down. Recently, moderators in over 50 of Reddit’s sub-category sites. The company went up on the auction block this week and Univision bought it up. Gawker is a media-industry gossip blog whose usual fare tends to celebrity sightings and sex tapes. Gawker Media declared bankruptcy in June after losing a major lawsuit. 8.18.16 1:21 PM EDT By Kate Cox last gawk gawker media bankruptcy univision
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