After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign…
Following a day-long auction against the online publisher Ziff Davis, the media conglomerate Univision is buying Gawker Media’s assets—including Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, and Lifehacker—for $135 million. However, the fate of the company’s flagship website, Gawker.com, remains unclear.
Ah, jokes. They are tricky to master, no? Sometimes they land, sometimes they fall flat. Sometimes you make a horrendous joke using a slur about a person born to a noncitizen mother in a country with birthright citizenship, and the audience just doesn’t get it!
Donald Trump and Univision have settled their $500 million lawsuit over the network’s dumping of Miss Universe, the New York Post reports, after Trump described Mexican immigrants as rapists. Trump’s lawyers argued recently that Univision should not have been surprised by his remarks.
Last summer, Donald Trump filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision for breach of contract and defamation after the network dumped the Miss Universe pageant (of which Trump was, at the time, a part owner) following the racist unveiling of his presidential campaign. Univision wants the suit dismissed, arguing that…
According to NPR, Univision just acquired a controlling stake in The Onion, the parent site of the only worthwhile website on the entire internet.
According to multiple reports, Walt Disney Co. wants to sell its stake in Fusion, its joint venture with Univision. Fusion originally sought an audience of English-speaking Hispanics before pivoting to “Millennials.” The network, however, has struggled to keep pace with other ambitious editorial startups like…
On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s security temporarily removed Univision anchor Jorge Ramos from a press conference in Iowa after the journalist tried to confront the presidential candidate about his immigration policy without being called on.
According to SEC paperwork filed by Fusion’s parent company Univision, investing millions of dollars in a TV network nobody watches and a website nobody reads is bad business.http://tktk.gawker.com/more-people-wo…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Miss USA owner and shrunken apple head Donald Trump has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision, accusing the network of breach of contract, defamation and—in a compulsory bit of Trumpian weirdness—trying to suppress his right to free speech.http://gawker.com/salty-donald-t…
After Univision ended its relationship with “verbal billionaire” and permanently open mouth Donald Trump’s Miss Universe Organization this week over Trump’s stance against Mexican immigration, the Donald fired back with an angry letter stating that oh yeah well you guys aren’t allowed on my golf course anymore. So…
Donald Trump, to be fair, says a lot of idiot things. And for the most part, people just ignore him until he tires himself out, as you might a child having a tantrum. But it looks like his idiot comments about drug-addicted-rapist Mexicans rightfully offended some people—Univision says they’re not going to air the…
Check out this crazy cat, walking through Univision's weather report. You don't know the weather, cat! Heh. "There are several cats that have turned the Univision parking lot into their home and sometimes they make it into the studio," Univision explains.
Mitt Romney currently trails President Obama among registered Latino voters by nearly 40%, and getting caught saying things like "it would be helpful to be Latino" certainly isn't helping.
America currently has three major 24-hour cable news networks. The repugnant right wing propaganda one that's actually successful, and the one that's trying to be left wing propaganda that's less successful, and the one that used to be the "real news" one and is now pretty much down for whatever in order to avoid…
In your sunny Wednesday media column: News Corp's Australian head departs, James Murdoch goes back to Parliament, a newspaper CEO sees the light, Univision is massive, and Newark Politico vs The Politico.
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Last week, Tom Hanks appeared on Univision's Despierta America morning show and soon found himself in the middle of a weather report-turned-dance party with sexy co-host Chiquinquira Delgado. It was cute! And when Hanks reminisced about the incident with David Letterman on tonight's Late Show, we couldn't help but…
In an inexplicable appearance that proves he'll do just about anything to promote his upcoming film, Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks spent some time with the hosts of Univision's Despierta America morning show on Tuesday. And if the above video of Hanks dancing the "weather mambo" with sexy co-host Chiquinquira Delgado is…
In your wet Wednesday media column: Newsweek's suddenly cloudy future, CNN would like some black viewers, Univision eyes cable news, the AP's union negotiations drag on, and a sad NPR Twitter addict.
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During an interview on Monday, Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos asked President Barack Obama whether or not he had his own computer, eliciting the sassy retort above. He's the freaking POTUS. Of course he has his own computer! That the interview happened to be part of a town hall for students, parents and teachers…
