Seth Abramovitch

Gawker Refugees Get a Second Act: Defamer Crew Relaunches Movieline

Peter Kafka in Media on April 14, 2009 at 3:10 am PT

Some people finish working for Nick Denton’s Gawker Media empire and do their best to never go back to blogging again. Not the veterans of Denton’s Defamer, the showbiz site he rolled into his Gawker flagship in February. The three men–Seth Abramovitch, Kyle Buchanan and S.T. VanAirsdale–are essentially reconstituting their old site, using the name and Web address of an even older site, Movieline.com.

Say Goodbye to Hollywood: Gawker Valleywags Defamer

Peter Kafka in Media on February 22, 2009 at 1:38 pm PT

Here’s what should be the last step in Nick Denton’s slimdown of his Gawker Media empire: The blog network is taking its LA-based Defamer site and rolling it up under its central Gawker title. The site’s existing writers will leave, to be replaced by other Gawker writers and a new hire.