Former Gawker staffers, led by Max Read and Cord Jefferson, are now developing scripts about the site’s glory days skewering the powerful
It’s been almost a year since the much-talked-about but highly fraught resurrection of gawker.com went kaput. Bustle Digital Group, which snatched up the domain in a 2018 bankruptcy auction, said at the time that it was postponing its plans to reboot the legendary website, following the P.R. fallout from a messy personnel controversy. Given the state of the media business—BDG is among the many players that have reckoned with coronavirus cuts—it’s unlikely we’ll see it happen anytime soon.
Plans for a revival of another sort, however, are moving along. Apple TV+, now building up its arsenal in the streaming wars, is in the early stages of developing a series about Gawker, several people familiar with the project told me. The show was conceived and pitched by two former Gawker staffers,who have been working on scripts for the past couple of months with a writers room that apparently includes some other Gawker alumni.
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