Sentences with word «gawker»

Billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has acknowledged that he secretly financed Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media in an effort to put the news website out of business, according to The New York Times.

A Florida state judge today upheld the $ 140 million jury verdict against Gawker Media for publishing Hulk Hogan's sex tape.

«I'd rather be wrong and thriving than right and dead,» the founder of Gawker Media wrote on his blog in July 2009.

People walk past a building that lists offices for Gawker Media in New York City, U.S., June 10, 2016.

It's not just about a single case — it's about a multi-year plan to fund multiple lawsuits against Gawker in the hope of shutting it down.

Hogan's side on Friday highlighted the video's viral spread, with an expert witness tallying that it reached millions more than the 2.5 million who saw it on Gawker over six months.

In 2007, a short blogpost by Gawker Media outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay.

Here's how Gawker founder Nick Denton describes Smith's pitch to brands: «He's got a lot of bravado and confidence that he uses with people who really don't understand where things are going with the media.

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.

Last summer, media news and gossip website Gawker published a claim by an anonymous ex-staff member of Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich accusing the politician of hiring a social - media firm to inflate his Twitter following with fake accounts.

I see all these photos on Food Gawker of soups and just think, dang, it's too hot for this stuff... so this looks great!

This morning The New York Times reported an interview with Gawker owner Nick Denton in which Denton said he had begun to believe rumors that some extremely wealthy person had been bankrolling Hogan's suit.

In a widely publicized privacy lawsuit this year, a Florida jury awarded Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, $ 140 million in damages from Gawker for publishing a sex tape in 2013 in which the former wrestler was featured.

The scandal broke in May, when reporters from the Star and the U.S. website Gawker reported they were shown such a video.

There is one honest, fledgling writer in the ranks of gawkers as the court case unfolds.

As a counter-example, Denton mentioned the nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities that leaked last year, which Gawker did not publish.

Quentin Tarantino is reportedly suing US website Gawker Media after a draft script to his follow up to the Oscar - winning Django Unchained was leaked online.

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.

This comes one month after the Buffalo - area Republican abruptly resigned after Gawker posted a shirtless photo the married then - congressman sent to a woman on Craigslist in hopes of setting up a tryst.

And lastly, for Peter, Terry, their legal team and those who were offended, annoyed and insulted by Gawker over the years, I guess you can say they won, too.

Adrian Chen of Gawker writes here about a website called Silk Road that «makes buying and selling illegal drugs as easy as buying used electronics — and seemingly as safe.

The billionaire got his wish when Gawker filed for bankruptcy protection in June, and held an auction of its assets.

After the judgment was handed down, Gawker filed for bankruptcy protection, and last week its assets were sold to Univision for $ 135 million.

Emily Books, a digital publisher and ebookstore co-founded by former Gawker editor Emily Gould, is currently offering its subscribers a tremendous savings over the original model through the development of an iOS app that sends ebooks directly to the readers» devices.

One Gawker article outlined in great detail some suspicious activity involving the author's copyrights, lawsuits and letters that intended to represent the author but did not in fact represent her true feelings, and even visitation privileges from the author's oldest friends being formally denied in writing.

He also urged drivers to stay off the road and requested potential gawkers not venture out to capture images of the storm.

The winner of the May 24th special election will fill the seat of Republican Rep. Chris Lee, who quickly resigned in April hours after the gossip website Gawker posted photos and e-mails from the married Congressman soliciting a date with a woman through the website Craigslist.

The person who forced Gawker into bankruptcy now wants to buy it, and a group of former employees aren't having it.

But that almost certainly would have interfered with his primary aim of putting Gawker out of business.

Whether or not you find Thiel's specific complaints about Gawker persuasive, the larger problem is that this kind of tactic systematically shifts power from the media to wealthy people.

Critics claim Theil's sole motive was to drive Gawker into bankruptcy, and to create a chill for similar online gossip sites, not to recover any damages for Hulk Hogan.

At one point, one of Hogan's lawyers asked a former Gawker editor if there were any situation in which a celebrity sex tape would not be newsworthy.

Facebook was faced with — and evaded — similar questions about its relationship with Thiel when Forbes revealed the early investor in the social media network and member of its board was bankrolling a lawsuit that ultimately drove Gawker Media into bankruptcy.

If Gawker does lose the jury trial, it is likely to win on appeal.

The partners who voted to remove the post were Andrew Gorenstein, who serves as the president of advertising and partnerships; chief operating officer Scott Kidder; chief strategy officer Erin Pettigrew; and chief executive officer Nick Denton, who founded Gawker Media in 2002.

Peter Thiel has agreed not to bid on the assets of bankrupt Gawker Media LLC in exchange for the web publisher's promise to end an investigation into the tech billionaire.

Denton's doughty attitude to legal threats (which Gawker also showed while exposing the crack - smoking mayor of Toronto) is similar to what newspapers and traditional media have long displayed.

Or when the press writes a trash piece about your company like how Gawker ripped Helena apart.

Hogan's attorneys told jurors this is the core of the case: «Gawker took a secretly recorded sex tape and put it on the Internet.»

Representing Mr. Trump in his case was a new lawyer, Charles Harder, who is best known for bringing the Hulk Hogan sex tape case that effectively put the gossip news site Gawker out of business roughly two years ago.

If the latter part of that quote holds up, it's a strange and telling priority set for the man who put Gawker out of business.

The reaction to her tweet was so overwhelming that she responded with an article for Gawker called «Ryan Gosling Saved Me From a Speeding Car But There's War In the Middle East So Everyone Calm Down» where she wrote that Americans «hyperventilate about the most everyday happenings as if they are the most important thing in the world» while failing to pay attention to pressing political and global issues.

Gawker also appealed the injunction order and a state appeals court reversed the injunction in January 2014 on First Amendment grounds.

It's the first of Gawker blogs to get an application look.

• Peter Thiel has made an offer to buy Gawker, a New York - based online media company.

Others have revamped their internship programs into «fellowships,» which tend to pay around minimum wage, including Gawker and the Huffington Post.