Gawker is back. The website known for blunt, gossipy coverage of celebrities, tech entrepreneurs, media figures and anyone else with an inflated ego went live on Wednesday, two years after a failed reboot attempt. The editor in chief is Leah Finnegan, a former executive editor of The Outline, a news site that shut down last year. She has also worked as an editor at Gawker and The New York Times. “The current laws of civility mean that no, it can’t be exactly what it once was,” Ms. Finnegan wrote of Gawker in a note to readers published Wednesday, “but we strive to honor the past and embrace the present.

Source: New York Times July 28, 2021 20:26 UTC