* Correction: This post originally stated that Heather Dietrick, the President and chief legal counsel of Gawker Media, voted to remove the post. It is the first time we have removed a significant news story for any reason other than factual error or legal settlement.вЂќ вЂњAccordingly, I have had the post taken down. вЂњThe point of this story was not in my view sufficient to offset the embarrassment to the subject and his family,вЂќ Denton wrote in a lengthy statement issued on Friday afternoon. But in an ironic twist, the old advertising manвЂ™s ghost may have put the stake in the heart of that feckless media outlet known as Gawker. is at the center of an international media corporation such as the founding CondГ© could not likely have imagined. Along with Tommy Craggs and Heather Dietrick, they belong to Gawker MediaвЂ™s managing partnership, which Denton established in 2014 and whose members decide on all major company matters. Today, Conde Nast Publications the dba of Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc. The partners who voted to remove the post were Andrew Gorenstein, who serves as the president of advertising and partnerships chief operating officer Scott Kidder chief strategy officer Erin Pettigrew and chief executive officer Nick Denton, who founded Gawker Media in 2002. Along with Craggs, every other member of Gawker MediaвЂ™s editorial leadership, including GawkerвЂ™s editor-in-chief Max Read and the executive editors of Gawker MediaвЂ™s Politburo, strenuously protested removing the post. The vote to remove the post, which was written by staff writer Jordan Sargent and edited by several other Gawker staffers, comes after widespread criticism from our own readers and other outlets. Executive editor Tommy Craggs, who helped edit the piece, and President Heather Dietrick, who reviewed and cleared it before publication in her capacity as Gawker MediaвЂ™s chief legal counsel, were the only partners who dissented. Today the managing partnership of Gawker Media voted, 4-2 *, to remove the post. вЂњChet Haze is the only Instagram I look at, also.вЂќ Haze/Hanks has three posts.Yesterday, Gawker published a post about the CFO of CondГ© Nast attempting to pay a gay porn star for a night in a Chicago hotel.

вЂњBut he hasnвЂ™t been on Twitter lately, so my day is not quite as bright anymore,вЂќ Nolan says. Still he says heвЂ™s down with and, hilariously, Tom HanksвЂ™s pseudo-rapper son, Chet Haze - er, Chester M. I follow idiots that I work with,вЂќ Nolan says. вЂњHonestly, IвЂ™m really bad on Twitter: I just follow people I know. I ask whether he gets story ideas from Twitter. He also routinely checks out (more on that later). Nolan also points to Abnormal Returns as a financial news source, along with Brooklyn real estate blog, Brownstoner, and the neighborhood-centric DNA Info. Then, he pauses, and itвЂ™s 2015 again when he tells me how long it takes him to click through all of those sites. вЂњI look at those every morning,вЂќ he tells me from the Gawker offices in New York, rattling off the old-school sources. Still, he keeps grounded, as he keeps surveying the news for GawkerвЂ™s trademark takes: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Advertising Age, USA Today, Insider Higher Ed and Bloomberg. Hamilton Nolan has been at Gawker since 2008, so heвЂ™s seen a lot of changes at the company - including its recent unionization and upheaval over the controversial posting (and consequential removal) of an article outing the CFO of CondГ© Nast.

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