On Friday, WikiLeaks published some 20,000 emails copied from the Democratic National Committee’s internal servers. Among them are a number of emails between DNC staffers and reporters. One of those reporters...is me.
The worst part about today’s video of a Success Academy charter school teacher berating a small child isn’t just that it happened, but that the school appears fine with this shocking behavior as a matter of policy. If you used to teach at S.A. and have more to share, we’d like to hear from you.
Daniel Wessel, press secretary for Clinton super PAC Correct the Record, is giving journalists “off the record” story pitches and tips, the Burlington Free Press reports. Has Correct the Record (or another PAC!) tried to pull this with you? Let us know: tips@gawker.com or brendan.oconnor@gawker.com.
“Fantasy Football” can mean a number of things: A game; a football-related fantasy; your dream football. If this fall it means, for you, “a game,” even though you don’t know too much about football and aren’t sure why you agreed to participate in the fantasy version, I have a few tips.
A quick announcement: Gawker Media’s anonymous SecureDrop portal, which went down for a few days as we moved the server into our new office, is up and running again. If you have information or stories to share with any of Gawker Media’s sites—and want to remain as anonymous as possible—SecureDrop is for you. Detailed…
Manhattan eatery Per Se—named the best restaurant in the city by The New York Times and the third most expensive restaurant in the world by The Daily Meal—has agreed to pay waitstaff $500,000 for allegedly withholding money from workers that a “reasonable patron” would consider to be tips, Reuters reports.…
Would the escaped prisoners have been found earlier if the New York State Police had read Gawker two weeks ago? It’s hard to say for sure of course, but yeah, probably. http://gawker.com/gawker-reader-…
At some point in your life you will be asked to order pizza for a group. When that time comes, don’t be afraid. All the information you need to determine how many pies to order can be found in the pizza itself. Because what is a pizza if not a tool for learning fractions?
A tipster tells us the LAPD is at the American Apparel headquarters in LA, "because Dov won't leave the property." Know anything more? Shoot us an email at tips@gawker.com.
We get a lot of tips. Some are good, while some are bad. That's life. Today, from reader Devin Echevarria, we received some great citrus-related advice.
Oh my God. Yesterday we asked what standards of tipping you live by, and you all have so, so, so much to say. There was a lot of bragging and plenty more whining in the nearly 700 comments left on yesterday's post.
The Awl's Matt Buchanan presented a questionable proposition today: That you should tip $1 for every drink at your local coffee house, irrespective of what you order (regular coffee, something a little richer, iced tea). Is that right?
Gawker believes that publicly airing rumors out is usually the quickest way to get to the truth. We also believe that Friday afternoons are a great time to share gossip with your friends. Here’s what we (and you) have heard lately.
Ever so slowly, a consensus that the minimum wage must be raised significantly is taking hold in America. But one group of workers could still be left behind: tipped workers, who, a new study says, are even more impoverished than minimum wage-earners.
Jim is not judgmental. Jim is Jim. Take it from Jim.
Comcast COO Dave Watson has admitted that company policy was at least as much to blame for the customer service call from hell as the sad, desperate employee heard on the recording. As Watson wrote in a memo, that customer retention rep was only doing what he was trained to do. But what was he trained to do, exactly?
Gawker maintains an active telephone tips line. Sometimes, we get tips so big—so explosive—we have no choice but to publish them directly to our website. Today, we heard from Jim, who is "not a politician or whatever," but has been "fired a lot."
Gawker relies on tips, leaked documents, and eyewitness accounts for many of its stories. Here’s how to get in touch.
We get tips. Lots of them. Sometimes Gawker features editor Tom Scocca responds to them. These conversations are memorialized here in an occasional feature we call Tom Tips Back.
