“Working at Gawker was somewhere in between doing time in an asylum and worshipping in a cult.”— Rich Juzwiak, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“I think a lot of us—and the site overall—share a sensibility that simultaneously takes the world very seriously while understanding that everything is a big joke. And we’d joke about the overly serious and take serious the overt jokes. I dusted as much as possible with a thin layer of satire, becaus…”— Rich Juzwiak, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“I have never felt entirely comfortable in any group, but I came closest at Gawker, because I generally felt like I was working with people who were the best at what they did, making something that would with another staff and (inevitably) more stifling management be impossible.”— Rich Juzwiak, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“The site’s run-till-tackled mentality was exhilarating while we ran—I appreciated that no one ever asked me to reduce myself or change to appease readers, especially because I know that even the best-intentioned among a liberal audience can have a hard time swallowing really gay shit. The tackling t…”— Rich Juzwiak, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“What appealed to me, more than anything, was a sensibility that loathed preciousness, that refused to defer to the most sensitive person in the room out of social pressure and smarmy politeness.”— Rich Juzwiak, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“Because of Gawker’s breadth, and because it didn’t have so much a single voice as a cacophony of several voices at any given time, the site meant many different things to many different people.”— Rich Juzwiak, gawker.comTagged: Gawker
“When I think about the demise of Gawker, I cope by viewing it from a remove and as a narrative. If nobody starves and this somehow manages to leave freedom of press unscathed (the latter obviously being the bigger if than the former), what has been crafted is a tale that would seem too outrageous as…”— Rich Juzwiak, gawker.comTagged: Gawker