It's Been a Year Since Gawker Died, Long Live Gawker

by Heidi GrooverHulk Hogan and Peter Thiel killed Gawker a year ago today. pool/getty
Today marks one year since the end of Gawker, an online media company undone by a rich guy with a grudge.As Sydney wrote last year, Gawker was on the receiving end of plenty of hate (some of it deserved) during its time, but the company employed a long list of great writers who weren't afraid of a goddamned thing. Today, media historian and journalism professor Michael Socolow writes in the Washington Post that