Indeed, in the months after the Gawker attack on the publishing executive, Denton made a concerted effort to consult various media figures, among them favorite Gawker targets - myself included - about the future of the site. Gawker to focus on politics in company restructuring Not incidentally, the story was written by Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya, a longtime friend and social buddy of Denton’s and part of the wide media network, that Denton - despite Gawker’s outsider rage against media insiders, and Denton’s personal hostility to the media establishment - has long cultivated. The overhaul and relaunch of Gawker Media's flagship site was announced last week in The New York Times. Gawker Media owner and mastermind Nick Denton expressed his personal disapproval about the bad judgment of his staff - a cult-like group of Denton retainers and protégées - and proclaimed his intention to remake the site into something kinder and gentler Gawker, the multimillion dollar gossip and bile website, reined in the worst of its antisocial behavior this summer after a widespread backlash over the particularly sadistic pummeling it gave a publishing executive without public position or profile using details of his private life leaked to it by a would-be extortionist.
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