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August 24, 2016

Gawker’s Era Is Over. Thank God. Let’s Hope Breitbart Is Next.

Ryan Holiday medium.com

Plenty of journalists are expressing faux-solidarity and misguided support for Gawker. But to an impartial observer it should be self-evident that both Gawker and Breitbart share a sensibility of depravity and anger.

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June 2, 2015

Will Gawker Go Union?

Steven Greenhouse Los Angles Times

If the unionization effort succeeds, it will be a big PR boost for the ailing labor movement. It will show that unions, which have focused in recent years on organizing low-wage workers, can also attract hip, highly educated workers, many of them Ivy League graduates. But if Gawker staffers reject the union, it will be an embarrassing blow to labor, especially because so much of the Gawker debate has been out in the open.

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