“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.”— Elizabeth Spiers, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“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.”— Elizabeth Spiers, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“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.)”— Elizabeth Spiers, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“Peter Thiel, you make Fred Durst look pretty chill. Hats off to you, I guess.”— Jessica Coen, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“Gawker so relentlessly covered ugly truths to the point that they are intrinsic to our understanding of how powerful people operate.”— Jessica Coen, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“Gawker, your death was an absurdity that was only surpassed by the absurdity of your life, and to shed tears at your passing would be to make mockery of the fate we all must face eventually. You are commended into the dirt whence you sprang, with the sorrows of those to whom you brought joy, however…”— Alex Balk, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“Openness and flexibility is why Gawker was able to make itself home to a generation of writers and editors who will continue to populate your smartphones and magazines long after the site ends. If you need a reason, those people are why Gawker is great.”— Gabriel Snyder, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“Gawker was only whatever the people running it at the time wanted it to be, and Nick’s best idea was to continually stock the site with people who wanted to do good.”— Gabriel Snyder, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“While fearlessness at tackling any topic is its hallmark, Gawker was always terrible at talking about itself, especially at telling the world what it was for.”— Gabriel Snyder, gawker.comTagged: Gawker