When Gawker was in its ascendancy it was pioneering in the best possible way. Gawker was instrumental in making online-only media serious, credible and – as it turns out – dangerous, in the way all good media is capable of being. Perhaps the most compelling of which have come from former editor Max Read, in a New York Magazine essay entitled “Did I Kill Gawker?” Read maybe did kill Gawker! Gawker was terrific when it was a bunch of smarmy, snarky, holier-than-thou hipsters with impressive vocabularies and preternatural media savvy writing stuff about Tina Brown. Which is not to say that old-school, establishment journalism is the only way to do things.

Source: National Post August 26, 2016 18:56 UTC