Gawker

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2013 Jun 2026 Justine Sacco — Eleven Hours A PR executive with 170 followers tweeted a bad AIDS joke before an 11-hour flight to Cape Town. By the time she landed, she was the number one trending topic worldwide, fired, and unhireable. She outlasted the publication that destroyed her.
Jun 2026 The Death of Games Journalism Gawker Media went from $48.7 million in annual revenue to a fire sale at 86% loss in three years. Kotaku got sold to a content farm. Polygon got sold to a content farm. The audience did not disappear. It migrated to individuals who do not answer to editors.
2007-2016 Jun 2026 Peter Thiel — The Billionaire Who Destroyed Gawker In 2007, Gawker outed Peter Thiel as gay. He said nothing. Nine years later, Gawker was bankrupt. Here's what happened in between.