![]() ![]() Since its launch in April 2003, the feature has grown into one of the most popular article topics on the site and drawn heavy criticisms for celebrating celebrity stalking. Gawker Stalker is a weekly round-up of celebrity sightings in New York City submitted by readers. While most stories are originally written by its staff writers, it also syndicates content from the sister blogs and occasionally features various firsthand reports and tips submitted by its readers. Gawker Media's flagship blog typically publishes anywhere from 30 to 50 posts a day, covering a wide range of topics like celebrity and media industry gossip, news media criticisms and other news stories that are relevant to the New York metropolitan area. FeaturesĪs of October 2012, Gawker Media is comprised of eight daily weblogs specializing in different beats: its flagship blog Gawker, sports blog Deadspin, consumer tech blog Gizmodo, videogame blog Kotaku, software blog Lifehacker, sci-fi and futurist blog io9, automobile blog Jalopnik and women's interest blog Jezebel. On February 2nd, 2012, the tech news blog The Next Web published a post titled "Remember That Gawker Redesign? A Year's Worth of Data Says it Worked," reporting that the network received a 10 million increase in monthly unique visitors compared to the previous year. On April 20th, The Atlantic published an article titled "Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worst Than Anyone Anticipated," which reported that the redesign had cut traffic by more than half. On February 17th, TechCrunch published an article titled "Gawker's Gulp Moment: Big Redesign is Driving People Away," featuring Quantcast data showing a large drop in traffic following the redesign. The same day, the news blog Mediaite published a post titled "Working Out the Glitches: How Are You Feeling About Gawker's Redesign?", which quoted several criticisms of the design by notable figures in the tech industry. On February 7th, 2011, all of the blogs in the Gawker Media network were updated with a new design and layout (shown below, right). The spam messages were posted by accounts that had been using the same password for both Gawker and Twitter. On December 13th, the computer security blog Naked Security reported that spammers had compromised "hundreds of thousands" of accounts on Twitter to promote an acai berry diet (shown below). ![]() Gnosis HackĪll of the blog network's source code and over one million of Gawker Media's commenter accounts were released by the hacker group Gnosis on December 11th, 2010. According to Wikipedia, Gawker Media sold the sites Idolator, Gridskipper and Wonkette on April 14th, 2008. In January 2008, the sci-fi blog io9 was launched. ![]() In 2005, geek lifestyle blog Lifehacker and the sports news blog Deadspin were launched. In 2004, Denton launched the left-leaning political blog Wonkette, the celebrity gossip blog Defamer, the news aggregator blog Kinja, the car culture blog Jalopnik and the videogame blog Kotaku. In November 2003, the sex-oriented blog Fleshbot was launched. In late 2002, Gawker's first sister site Gizmodo was launched as a technology news blog under the editorship of Engadget cofounder Peter Rojas. On October 3rd, 2008, the Gawker rumor blog Valleywag published a memo from Denton announcing the layoff of 19 of the 133 editorial positions at Gawker Media. In 2008, an office space was set up for Gawker employees in the Nolita neighborhood of New York City. In mid-2006, Coen left Gawker to work for Vanity Fair and was replaced by Emily Gould. ![]() In August 2004, Denton promoted Sicha to the newly created position of editorial director for Gawker Media and hired Jessica Coen, a film studio assistant, to replace Sicha. In August 2003, Spiers left Gawker to write for New York magazine and her position was replaced by art dealer Choire Sicha. The company was first incorporated in Budapest, Hungary, where it maintains a small office with several programmers. The original Gawker gossip blog was launched in December 2002 by former British journalist Nick Denton, who ran the website from his apartment in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. ![]()
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