All will be absorbed into Univision's Fusion Media Group. One factual note: while has shut down, the acquiring company, Univision, will continue publishing 's affiliate publications, including Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel and Kotaku. As an enterprise dude, I find myself wondering what the implications are.
This is the first I can recall a consistently profitable new media company being shut down.But there are two notable aspects of Gawker's fall: We saw that not long ago in the enterprise space with the May 2015 shuttering of GigaOm, (though GigaOm proved hard to kill, and has returned in a somewhat new form). This is hardly the first time that a media property has quickly ceased operations.
#GAWKER DOWN SERIES#
Now, 's casket is closed, though you can still pay your respects at, which contains a series of self-righteous obituaries that offer abundant clues to the victim's demise. In May, when 's fate was not yet sealed, my colleague Den Howlett penned a Friday rant: the media business just got a bit interesting.
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