Rubberneck's lead webpage — Gawker.com — won't keep on operating under its new proprietors, a sudden end to a standout amongst the most disputable and antagonistic advanced media sites.
Rubberneck's own media columnist affirmed reports that started to develop on Thursday that Gawker.com would be closed down. The site will stop to work at some point one week from now.
"Scratch Denton, the organization's active CEO, educated current staff members of the site's destiny on Thursday evening, hours under the watchful eye of a chapter 11 court in Manhattan will choose whether to favor Univision's offered for Gawker Media's different resources. The close term gets ready for Gawker.com's scope, and in addition the site's chronicles, have not yet been finished," composed J.K. Trotter.
Univision consented to obtain Gawker Media, which incorporates Gawker.com and different verticals like Deadspin and Jezebel, for $135 million, having outbid Ziff Davis amid Gawker's chapter 11 incited closeout process.
The website's files will supposedly stay on the web, and its staff will be offered positions at the organization's different verticals.
With respect to Denton, he won't join Univision. In a notice sent to staff after a judge made the deal official, Denton said that he would not be a piece of the film.
"Tragically, neither I nor Gawker.com, the buccaneering leader of the gathering I worked with my associates, are tagging along for this next stage," he composed.
Denton noted with a tone of thrashing that "Regardless of the possibility that the advances court topples this current spring's Florida jury decision, Peter Thiel has as of now accomplished a large portion of his targets."
Onlooker is as yet reeling from the $140 million judgment found against the organization and also its CEO and prime supporter Nick Denton and previous manager A.J. Daulerio, leveled by a Florida jury that chose Gawker had damaged the security of wrestler Hulk Hogan for posting a clasp of his sex tape.
While Gawker.com may not proceed under Univision, there are some ways it could at present survive. One hypothesis that has picked up footing in media circles is that the site will stay in limbo until Gawker's allure of its security claim with Hogan is determined.
On the off chance that Gawker Media wins the offer, Denton would be in line for a substantial lump of the $135 million that Gawker Media sold for. He may then purchase Gawker.com over from Univision.
The issue with this hypothesis is that Denton apparently has a non-contend statement that would keep him from working a contending site.
A solicitation for input sent to Univision was not promptly returned. Representatives for Gawker and Fusion declined to remark.
With respect to Denton's future, that is additionally uncertain. Univision has not openly expressed if Denton will remain focused. Univision's craving to separation itself from Gawker could show that it doesn't plan to keep Denton insider savvy.
Denton indicated in his reminder that he will begin something new.
"I will proceed onward to different activities, attempting to make the web a discussion for the open trade of thoughts and data, however out of the news and tattle business," he composed.
He additionally left the entryway open for an arrival of Gawker.com.
"Gawker.com may, similar to Spy Magazine in its day, have a second demonstration," he composed. "For the occasion, be that as it may, it will be retired, until the smoke clears and another proprietor can be found."