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It is what makes September in the city feel uniquely new every year, as if we were all matriculating at some sophisticated Swiss boarding school, yet to enter the philosophical Ivy League, that place of peace to which we’d been granted passports for all our sweat and tears in town.īrowning left Condé Nast only to realize the extent to which work had been her anchor and her clock work was New York, in a way, so how could one live without it? In the excerpt she sleeps late, stares at eggs, and eventually arrives at Ovid (more on Gawker here and the Observer here). Didion captured what’s seductive in the city, that thing that leaves even those of us who’d “only planned to stay awhile” waking up there after fifteen, or twenty, years. It is the sine qua non of Exit Literature, and specifically, the Literature of Exiting Manhattan. Goodbye to All That was published as part of a collection of Joan Didion’s essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, in 1968. It is too soon to tell what it means now, exactly, despite the rush to elegize, but Browning’s bravery was less about which skills it took to live within the walls of 4 Times Square and more about what it took to live beyond them. Her story is more than just this, but it begins with this: she was the extremely successful Editor of a much-loved magazine at a time when the magazine medium meant something different than what it means now.

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(The TV network also owns the tech-centric Fusion, the black news and culture site The Root, as well as a minority stake in The Onion.Dominique Browning’s book, excerpted in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, will tell her story. Gawker writers will reportedly keep their jobs at one of Gawker Media’s six other sites, or at other properties owned by Univision. The $140 million judgment against Gawker eventually bankrupted the company, forcing it to sell its editorial assets.

Thiel secretly bankrolled Hogan’s invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker, and Hogan won in court. In the process, Gawker often angered those same powerful people, including two fateful posts that led to its undoing: one that identified billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel as gay, and another that excerpted a Hulk Hogan sex tape. At its best, Gawker punched up with a vengeance, holding powerful public figures and institutions accountable.

At its worst, Gawker published articles with seemingly little news value, like its purported outing of a Condé Nast executive (Condé Nast is WIRED's parent company). As one of the original online journalism upstarts, Gawker pushed editorial boundaries beyond the niceties of traditional mainstream journalism in a way that has come to define the tone and style of news on the web. The end of Gawker is also the end of an era in the web's short history. (A bankruptcy judge is set to approve the final sale later today.) Gawker’s outgoing CEO Nick Denton broke the news to staffers in Gawker’s Manhattan office today. Gawker Media's new owner, US Spanish-language TV network Univision, made the decision to shut down the site after bidding $135 million for the web publisher's seven-site portfolio in a bankruptcy auction earlier this week. After a 14-year run, is shutting down next week.

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