Sentences with phrase «gawker story»

A month after the Gawker story, in May 2014, Franco posted a suggestive selfie to his public Instagram account.

He sees it as a quintessential Gawker story — entirely true, about a celebrity who peddled a false narrative but brought public attention upon himself, and involving sex.

The sarcastic reviews dominating the pen's Amazon pages went viral thanks to a popular Gawker story, which in turn was picked up by a range of mainstream media outlets like CBC.ca.

The letter came from a lawyer claiming to represent New York - based hair - replacement company Ivari International, which was the subject of the Gawker story featuring allegations from unnamed sources claiming that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee paid Ivari $ 60,000 — along with regular fees for upkeep — to maintain his oft - maligned hairdo.

Shiva Ayyadurai sued Gawker for questioning his claim that he invented email, and freelance journalist Ashley Terrill sued because of a Gawker story that criticized her behavior in reporting on the dating app Tinder.

Although Thiel implies in his essay that the Gawker story about Hogan's sex tape would not have been published by any right - thinking journalistic outlet, and that the First Amendment doesn't and shouldn't protect such behavior, two higher - court judges ruled before the Hogan decision that the Gawker piece was clearly covered by the Constitution's free - speech protections.

Not exact matches

Thiel has not said why he wants Gawker, though the potential acquisition would let him take down stories regarding his personal life that are still available on the site.

To recap, Hogan sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after the site published a story in 2012 about the wrestler having sex with a friend's wife, and included a short clip from a recording of the act.

With more anonymous fanning of the flames, that post becomes the source for a story by a bigger blog, which turns into a story for a gossipy site like Gawker.

The story left a mark on Thiel, as those close to him told Forbes, and was part of his motivation to go after Gawker in court down the road.

Melania Trump, wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, has hired the same lawyer that former wrestler Hulk Hogan used to bankrupt Gawker Media, and is threatening to sue several media outlets for defamation related to stories they wrote about her past.

The victim was not a public figure and claimed he did not know the escort, but Gawker published the story all the same to the dismay of sponsors and everyone else.

Harder's letter calls Gawker's story on Ivari and Trump's hair «false and defamatory» while accusing the website of libel, invasion of privacy, and tortious interference.

For many, the name Gawker is now indelibly associated with a massive legal judgment for privacy invasion and a host of equally unseemly stories, including one that the site eventually took down that outed a married Conde Nast executive who was cruising for gay strippers.

While those kinds of stories are the ones many people will think of when they hear the name, however, Gawker also used its take - no - prisoners attitude to break some truly significant news stories, stories that in many cases were ultimately picked up by the mainstream media.

Even though some of its stories made us deeply uncomfortable, however, and made it hard to defend the site to its critics, something important has been lost with the death of Gawker.

Gawker posted its own Chartbeat graph in the comments below its post, and its Fusion story had more than 1,200 concurrent readers.

Gawker infringes on privacy and publishes tabloid - like stories that damage reputations.

According to a leaked screenshot of Fusion's web traffic that was posted by Gawker, the site had less than 35 readers looking at its top story on a recent day.

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

The news about Mr. Thiel funding the suit against Gawker broke just as the previous contretemps about Silicon Valley and the media — how Facebook shapes the news that its users see, sparked by a story in Gizmodo, another Gawker property — was dying down.

Today's Post story reported that Gawker has one offer for a very low price of $ 50 million to $ 70 million.

He told the audience that if they want to do something to help journalists, they should support blog TechDirt and its founder Mike Masnick, who is being sued by the same lawyer who led Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker over stories TechDirt published about Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email.

Denton faces a judge and jury who are skeptical of, if not outright hostile to, his blog empire and philosophy of reporting the «story behind the story,» and some inside Gawker say that they expect the company to lose the case.

When asked by Goodby if he would do Hulk Hogan stories again, Denton answered that as an editor, he would not say every Hogan article on Gawker is worthy, but part of the idea of the internet is you say all the things you believe with little filters.

«It will be difficult to sell Gawker to them, but also I think he's going to have a really hard time selling his version of the story to them,» she added.

In this recession, the term funemployment has gained some currency among single 20 - somethings, prompting a small raft of youth - culture stories in the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Weekly, on Gawker, and in other venues.

It features Ryan Holliday, whose latest book provides a behind the scenes look at the story of how Peter Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media.

In one of its most infamous stories, Gawker reported on a New York media executive soliciting the services of a male escort.

Nick Denton, Gawker's founder and chief executive, used the occasion to defend the site's coverage of Mr. Bollea, but he also wrote that it's not enough for a story «simply to be true.»

[We specifically demand that Gawker Media and its employees] immediately provide us with the name and all contact information for the unnamed «tipster» of the Story, so that we can serve that person with an immediate cease and desist letter to stop the spread of the false Story.

Last week, Thiel's lawyer - for - hire, Charles J. Harder, sent Gawker a letter on behalf of Ivari International's owner and namesake, Edward Ivari, in which Harder claims that Feinberg's story was «false and defamatory,» invaded Ivari's privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional distress, and committed «tortious interference» with Ivari's business relations.

If you've missed out on the fun so far, Gawker published a story yesterday in which a former Gingrich's campaign staffer claimed that the Newtster had purchased most of his much - touted million - plus Twitter fanbase:

If you've missed out on the fun so far, Gawker published a story yesterday in which a former...

What: Elected in 2008, the married congressman resigned in 2011 after the non-defunct website Gawker ran a story about his outreach to women on Craigslist that included a

What: Elected in 2008, the married congressman resigned in 2011 after the non-defunct website Gawker ran a story about his outreach to women on Craigslist that included a memorable photo of a shirtless selfie.

Gawker picked up WGRZ's story about how much Cuomo administration spokespeople make to tell members of the media not very much at all.

Thiel's speech was an especially strange one for Gawker, considering he helped fund a lawsuit against the online news site after a story outed him.

Gawker, a self - proclaimed gossip blog, has long been open about its policy to publish rumors when it hears them, and to correct them as the story changes.

No real specifics there, but Gawker's Alex Pareene was out of the gates shortly after by tacking on a story he'd heard (which he admits he only knew as a rumor) about New York's First Couple being active swingers.

The story was picked up by both Discovery News and io9, the sci - fi and science blog from Gawker media.

Nobody Speak is his latest film, a doc on the story of Gawker and the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that killed the website.

Extracts from the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, said: «Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff's screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally.»

«Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of Free Press»: With Gawker recently departed, this story about Hulk Hogan and his trial against the website has the promise to engage the role of media when going up against money.

Days after the story broke on Gawker, Franco appeared on Live With Kelly and Michael and admitted to trying to arrange a hook - up with the girl, though he didn't explain why he had hit on someone who wasn't of legal age.

You may have seen it by now — this is actually the 4th time * I've covered a story right before a Gawker... Continue reading →