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A Guide to IDing the Real People Disguised in Michael Hastings’ Novel
The late investigative reporter Michael Hastings’ much-buzzed-about posthumous novel, The Last Magazine, a thinly veiled account of his time at Newsweek (and Gawker!) in the mid-2000s, finally landed in bookstores and Amazon warehouses earlier this week. But where’s the fun in thin veils?
Nope, Fox News Really Did Shove Shepard Smith Back Into the Closet
Last week, Gawker reported that, in the summer of 2013, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the events, Fox News executives had retaliated against star anchor Shepard Smith because he had voiced his desire to come out as gay. Fox News called the report “100% false and a complete fabrication,” and pointed…
Is the Internet Making Us More Unequal? A Q&A With Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor began her career making documentaries about thinkers (Zizek! and Examined Life). Now she's doing the thinking herself. In her new book, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Taylor argues the Internet isn't as liberating a force as its initial boosters promised. She's…
The Top 100 Gawker Posts of 2013, by Traffic
We've already assembled what we think are the best Gawker posts of 2013. Here is what the faceless, indifferent gods of internet traffic thought were the best.
The 10 Least Popular Gawker Posts of 2013, by Traffic
Wow, you guys missed some... OK stuff. These are the 10 least-read Gawker posts of the year, ranked by pageviews. Give them another chance! And what do you have against Nelson Mandela, international news, terrible music, and former Gawker editorial fellow Maggie Lange? (The Lanny Davis thing, we get.)
The Best Gawker Posts of 2013
Our best work here at Gawker is not always our most popular. Sometimes those two indicia—popularity and quality—are negatively correlated, and sometimes they're aligned. It's a crapshoot. Below, you will find the a list of the best stuff we came up with over the past 12 months. It's a grab-bag of searing criticism,…
The Year in Bears
Bears! Sure, 2013 is technically the Year of the Deer, but what would the past 12 months have been without Gawker.com's groundbreaking bear coverage? Answer: Not much. So as Gawker Media's premier source for all news bear-related, we're proud to present: The Year in Bears, 2013 Edition.
The literary summer of Gawker contributing editor Kiese Laymon continues with the publication of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays, released yesterday. Buy it with his debut novel, Long Division, which came out in June. And read the original essay here.
Reader Poll: Big Letters in Headlines or little letters in headlines?
A debate is raging here at Gawker Media: Should we, as a suite of web sites, maintain (with one exception) our current adherence to the grand American newspapering tradition of Headlines that Capitalize the First Letter of Each Significant Word? Or should we crumble before the creeping Europeanization of our culture…
Wikileaks Is Back. Goddammit.
Where's Edward Snowden? As I write this, only a handful of people know exactly the location of the world famous NSA whistleblower, after he apparently ditched his flight from Moscow to Cuba last night. One of those people is Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Snowden is "safe and healthy" and his "spirits are high,"…
New York Daily News Reports Nick Denton Is Getting Married (UPDATE: Exclusive Photo)
Cybermillionaire Nick Denton, the former owner of First Tuesday and Oddjack and current principal of Blogwire Hungary Szellemi Alkotast Hasznosito KFT, plans to marry his boyfriend next year, according to an exclusive report in the New York Daily News.
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Zebra Katz, the Mind Behind Underground Anthem “Ima Read” Is Here to Chatz
Last year was a good year for Ojay Morgan. After being signed to Jeffree's, an offshoot of Diplo's Mad Decent label, his fascinatingly caustic single "Ima Read" was picked as the sole soundtrack for dark horse designer Rick Owen's Fall 2012 show. Soon after, Morgan (as his alter-ego Zebra Katz) was being asked to…
Underground sensation Zebra Katz will be here at noon to answer your questions. — Sponsored

