Gawker's Top Two Editors Resign After 'Gay-Shaming' Article Removed
Source: TPM
Gawker's two top editors, Tommy Craggs and Max Read, announced Monday that they were resigning from the news website after a story about a media executive was removed from the site last week, according to Gawker.
Gawker chief executive Nick Denton announced Friday afternoon that the website would remove an article that sparked widespread accusations of "gay-shaming" and blackmail of a publishing executive. The post’s deletion was decided by the managing partners of Gawker Media, despite protests from editorial employees.
In notes to the editorial staff, Craggs and Read wrote they could no longer effectively guarantee the editorial freedom of Gawker.
Craggs’ resignation letter painted a picture of a company in chaos as the article caught fire on the Internet. He said he told the managing partners on Friday that he would be forced to resign if they voted to remove the post. But he thought that unlikely because, as Craggs wrote, "Nothing had ever come to a formal vote.”
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