As Gawker retires, one of its deputy editors explores her time there, and the complex feelings she has over earning a living in journalism, a job that comes with consequences and can, she says, “sometimes feel a whole lot like tattling.” It’s fascinating.
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My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers
Gawker had a contentious existence. Let’s celebrate the variety of its material by rereading this hilarious story of one reporter’s self-destructive marathon of cheap mozzarella-stick-eating spent without reading material, wi-fi or sleep, just the satisfaction of winning a bet. It gets ugly fast.
The Many Acts of Keith Gordon
How does a young, successful actor become a relatively unknown director of most of the television you watch? And what’s next?
The Many Acts of Keith Gordon
How does a young, successful actor become a relatively unknown director of most of the television you watch? And what’s next?
We’re Going Through Hell, and Men Need to Join Us There
The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.
We Need to Talk About Madness: A Reading List
Talking about it is terrifying, but not talking about it is deadly.
Behind the Scenes of Longform Storytelling: A Reading List
These stories will give you an idea of the strength and skill that goes into creating engaging literary journalism.
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A sense of personal freedom is quite indispensable. And this sense didn’t begin growing inside me until very recently. I had never had it before, replacing it quite successfully with frivolity, carelessness and a lack of respect for my work. What aristocratic writers take from nature gratis, the less privileged must pay for with their […]
On Gawker’s Problem with Women
A former Gawker staffer investigates “how a media company founded on whistleblowing and radical transparency failed its female employees.”
We’re Living in the Golden Age of the Corporate Takedown
Why do we love reading about CEOs behaving badly? Perhaps it’s because we identify with their exhausted workers.
