Gawker set to return again – but can it recapture ‘the old anarchic spirit’?

Bustle Digital Group, which bought Gawker in 2018, is to bring back the website with Leah Finnegan as editor. Will it work?

For five years, the pioneering gossip website Gawker has lain dormant with a blunt message from co-founder Nick Denton: It is the end of an era."

Now Gawker, which came to represent the freedoms and excesses of web-only publishing before it was closed down following a convoluted $140m libel case brought by the wrestler Hulk Hogan in 2016, is set to be rebirthed (again).