"Gawker's growing up."
That's the message of a memo sent by Gawker Founder Nick Denton to his staff on Sunday as the company continues to react to a controversy that resulted in the resignation of the company's executive editor and Gawker.com's editor in chief. Gawker's Max Read and Tommy Craggs resigned after a story they published about a gay porn escort was abruptly removed from the site, arguing that the deletion was done under pressure from the site's business executives
The deleted article, and the resignations, have led to soul searching verging on identity crisis for the former media blog, which defines itself as a band of nimble outsiders compared to the slower ways of the legacy media establishment Read more...
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