Behind the Scenes of Our Post About the Guy Who Broke the Seinfeld Door
Yesterday, we published a post called “Real-Life Kramer Breaks Door Instead of Delivering Unhinged Racist Rant.” Here is the editorial discussion, held in the gawker-editors Slack chat, that preceded it.
Gawker Media Employees Who Can Communicate Securely
This is a regularly updated list of Gawker Media editorial employees who have taken steps to send and receive encrypted communications, with links to their public PGP keys and fingerprints. They are all reachable via email, or via Google Talk chat using the email addresses listed below. Their OTR fingerprints—for the…
Introducing the Gawker Media SecureDrop
Gawker Media runs on tips and leaks from people with information to share. To make that sharing as private as possible, we are announcing our newest, most secure method for sending things to our reporters and editors: the Gawker Media SecureDrop.
Say Goodbye to the Gawker Newsfeed
Heads up: At or around 11:00 a.m. today (Monday, March 2), we're re-merging the Gawker Newsfeed with the Gawker.com front page. The old Newsfeed URL will redirect to Gawker.com, and posts that were previously published or shared to Newsfeed will now be shared to the front page instead.
The Gawker Art Blog
We've decided to kick off a new subkinja blog dedicated to the artwork we create here at Gawker Media. A lot of the content you'll find will be shared posts from around the network with images the art team has created, curated into one place. Occasionally, we'll post something else we just like. Maybe we'll post…
Re: Super Bowl Commercials
Just sent the following email to all of Gawker Media editorial:
Writer Safety & Perspective at Gawker Media
I sent this email to the Gawker Politburo today after our seating chart was leaked to The Awl. Lots of the Jezebel writers were upset by this. I explained why.
Heads up to regular commenters: Sometime this week the Gawker Media tech team will give us a head start on following people for the new sections by migrating the main page's "follow list" to each sub-blog (with the exception of the Vane and Valleywag, which have well-defined communities and more closely moderating…
We Have a New Masthead
Having finally gotten fed up with that ancient (2010?) advertising video, I wrote a new masthead post/about page that will hopefully be useful to new readers or visitors looking for information.
Gawker Media's Responsibility to Diversity
In December, following the company's all-hands meeting, I sent an email to Nick Denton (Founder and CEO), Heather Dietrick (President), Scott Kidder (VP, Operations), Tommy Craggs (Executive Editor), and Lacey Donohue (Executive Managing Editor) about the responsibility the company has to diversity.
And It Came to Pass, That in the Morning, Behold, It Was Leah
I'm 24 hours late reporting this, but Gawker has a new deputy editor and a new features editor. Here's the memo I sent to staff yesterday; Capital New York wrote it up here.
Appletini Party Boy Alex Pareene (Re)Joins Gawker Media
Call it the ingathering of the exiles. I'm happy to announce that Alex Pareene, fresh from overseeing the spectacular launch of Racket Teen, is the latest in a string of former staffers to return to Gawker Media's deathless embrace.
What Is Editorial Labs?
Hi. I'm Adam Pash. I worked at Lifehacker for seven years, left two years ago, and have now returned to the amniotic embrace of Gawker Media (meaning Tommy owes Nick $50). And, thanks to the Great Editorial Restructuring of 2015, I'm heading up a new thing called Editorial Labs. The purpose of this post story is to…
Gawker 2015
As part of our end-of-year process, all Gawker Media site leads were asked to submit planning memos for the next year. In the interests of transparency, here's mine.
