If Fox News had written about Peter Thiel being gay and his fund Clarium failing, would anyone be okay with its total destruction? (Even if that destruction was carried out by going after the network on other, unrelated stories that they got wrong, as Thiel did by financing multiple lawsuits against…
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Elizabeth Spiers
Elizabeth Spiers (born December 11, 1976) is an American Web publisher and journalist, the founder of Gawker.com, a media gossip blog, and of Dead Horse Media, which has published blogs and websites in the fields of Wall Street, the law, fashion industry, and business management. (The business site has closed.) She has also written for traditional journalism and published in mainline media outlets. Spiers left Dead Horse Media in 2007 over differences about new properties. From February 2011 until August 2012 she was the editor of the New York Observer. 2Early life and education Spiers was born in Wetumpka, Alabama, and attended local schools. After graduating from Duke University in 1999 with a degree in public policy, Spiers headed to Wall Street to work in finance, but soon became involved in the fast-growing blog industry. 2Career Spiers started working in journalism as a contributing writer and editor at New York magazine. She has written for the New York Times, Salon.com and New York Post, among other publications. Spiers is noted as the founding editor of Gawker.com, an influential New York media gossip blog. She worked briefly before that as the editor-in-chief of mediabistro.com, a site offering resources for media professional
I imagine that ‘founding editor of Gawker’ will be the first item on my obituary, no matter what I do going forward or have done since. And that’s less because of what I did there during my short tenure, than what Nick and my various successors built it into. For that, I can only say thank you.
I will also miss the wit and intelligence here. I read Gawker every day and will likely be typing it into my browser for months from sheer muscle memory.
I’m very proud of Gawker’s history of going after risky, difficult stories that would have otherwise been ignored. (And really, if you’re not vacillating between ecstasy and terror in the course of reporting those kinds of stories, you’re probably doing something wrong.)