“Gawker always existed on the strengths of its writers and editors, and this group is really, really good. I love them.”— Leah Finnegan, gawker.com
“The site’s interim editor in chief, Barry Petchesky, who had worked there for 10 years, tweeted Tuesday that he had been fired for 'not sticking to sports.'”— Marc Tracy, nytimes.com
“My former friend actually sucks, and here are some personal details about her addiction and suicidality is not a good premise for a story.”— Tiana Lowe, washingtonexaminer.com
“As the only woman on the previous revenue leadership team, I started to wonder if women were being considered for leadership roles.”— Laura Wagner, deadspin.com
“At some point the word ‘strategy’ becomes a euphemism for procrastination.”— Peter Theil, amazon.com
“Gawker was trying to cut people down to size for not conforming. The ability to speak and not have every word you say get distorted, to have wrong ideas and then be able to correct them — these notions were powerfully undercut by Gawker.”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“I felt like I was in a Black Mirror episode, trapped in my own Gawker story and I can’t say anything.”— AJ Daulerio, amazon.com
“The job of a journalist would be unbearable if one was always to put oneself in the shoes of a subject.”— Nick Denton, amazon.com
“They find that Gawker’s female writers relished going after people, too, particularly other women: “Christina Hendricks Says These Giant Naked Boobs Aren’t Hers, But Everything Else Is”: 280,000 page views. “Olivia Munn’s Super Dirty Alleged Naked Pics:”: 680,000 page views. They discover that Gawke…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“It was founded, remember, by paying writers for each morsel they dropped into it, not how nutritious each morsel was.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“I came to believe that the nastiness of the internet was not a function of a technology or various things that have gone wrong, but the function of one particularly nasty media company led by a particularly sociopathic individual and that if I defeated Gawker, it would actually change the media land…”— Peter Thiel, amazon.com
“If the continued effect of Valleywag is that it makes Silicon Valley 1 percent less ambitious, what is that cost?”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“What he knew was that most people did not have the stomach— or the cash— to actually take it very far against a media outlet. He felt protected by the moat explained in the old twentieth-century proverb: Never fight a battle against someone who buys ink by the barrel. It’s easier to just let the who…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“Gawker’s first editor, Elizabeth Spiers, was paid $ 2,000 per month for twelve posts a day, seven days a week.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“Nick Denton initially hired me to write for a site he was about to launch called Flesh Bot, which was intended to be a site about adult things. I did not want to do that. [Laughs] And fortunately, Elizabeth Spiers retired before that site launched so he instead was like, "Oh, you're here. Just take…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“All that’s really left to say is that Gawker is gone and that Donald Trump is president. That simple reality should comfort the rich and powerful everywhere and chill the bones of the rest of us.”— Michael J. Socolow, washingtonpost.com
“There’s been a lot of great journalism done in the past year about inequality and unemployment in America and all of that is inspiring, in the sense that it makes me realize that I can use this site [Gawker] for something better than just hearing the sound of my own voice all the time.”— Hamilton Nolan, jimromenesko.com
“Gawker was like the id of America, and potential sources knew where a story like that — representing the voice of the creative underclass — could get published”— Hamilton Nolan, washingtonpost.com
“Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.”— Dave Eggers, Mercer, amazon.com