Tuesday’s cuts follow a series of staffing changes from Gawker Media. Gawker editor in chief Alex Pareene and Gawker Media features editor Tom Scocca will publish weekly and twice-weekly columns, respectively, on while writers Sam Biddle and Allie Jones will report from the campaign trail and Ashley Feinberg will cover the “dark and hilarious lunatic fringes on the right and left.” will also hire a politics reporter, a senior editor and a deputy editor.Īs part of the repositioning, is eliminating its sub-blogs that are unrelated to news and politics: Defamer, focused on celebrity coverage Morning After, focused on TV shows Valleywag, focused on Silicon Valley and The Vane, focused on weather.
Gawker Media executive editor John Cook laid out the changes coming to in a memo. Moore's departure leaves Gawker without a social media team.
In addition, Gawker social media editor Terron Moore told POLITICO that he's leaving the company to join Condé Nast as social media director for Teen Vogue. A number of part-time contributors - including Dennis Mersereau, who ran Gawker's weather sub-blog The Vane - were also cut. Those affected by the layoffs include Gawker senior editor Jason Parham, news editor Taylor Berman, senior writer Jay Hathaway, staff writer Kelly Conaboy, and Jezebel senior reporter Natasha Vargas-Cooper.
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