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Carlos Watson : The founder of the troubled digital start-up Ozy Media was arrested on fraud charges, punctuating one of the more precipitous falls in the annals of online journalism.

Dropping ‘Dilbert’ : Hundreds of newspapers across the country will stop running the comic strip after its creator, Scott Adams, said that Black people were “a hate group.”.Rupert Murdoch : The conservative media mogul acknowledged in a deposition in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit that several Fox News hosts promoted the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen.

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The Cost of a Movie Seat : As the film business changes rapidly, multiplexes are experimenting with pricing in ways that may seem shocking to theatergoers.

Still, it was an abrupt outcome after what had been a long period of uncertainty. The fate of had been the subject of much speculation ever since the Hogan verdict. Denton wrote in a note to the staff on Thursday afternoon shortly after a bankruptcy judge approved the company’s sale to Univision. “Sadly, neither I nor, the buccaneering flagship of the group I built with my colleagues, are coming along for this next stage,” Mr. Denton, whose sites pioneered a wry, conversational and brash form of web journalism that would influence publications across the internet, will leave the company. On Thursday, less than 48 hours after Univision’s $135 million bid won an auction for Gawker Media, the bond finally broke.

Left with few options, Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy and put itself up for sale in June. For nearly 14 years, Nick Denton and have defined Gawker Media.īut over the last several months, a split of some kind between the company, its founder and its flagship site became inevitable: Gawker Media, under financial pressure from a $140 million legal judgment in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit brought by Hulk Hogan, the former professional wrestler, also encountered a seemingly unbeatable adversary in the form of Peter Thiel, the billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur who was financing legal efforts against the company.