Gawker did not invent blogging, but Nick Denton, its founder, was among the first to recognize that blogs were a transformational technical innovation. And it used that understanding to unleash a set of technical, business and journalistic innovations on the news industry that have altered the way we produce, consume and react to media today. It was the first publisher that understood the pace, culture and possibilities of online news. But in many ways, Gawker Media - which included Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jezebel, Lifehacker and several other sites in addition to - was the first real digital media company. Just about everywhere in media today, for better and worse, Gawkerism is thriving.Ĭreated in 2002 after the dot-com bubble, Gawker was far from the first online news site it wasn’t the first blog or the first network of blogs, either. While he may have killed Gawker, its sensibility and influence on the rest of the news business survive. Thiel’s victory was a hollow one - you might even say he lost. He apparently vowed revenge, eventually carrying out a plan to fund lawsuits against Gawker Media, the publisher that upset him, culminating this week with the shuttering of the flagship .īut Mr. Nine years ago, Peter Thiel, a wealthy and secretive Silicon Valley investor, read something about himself online that he didn’t appreciate.
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