After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week, the website reported yesterday. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his legal campaign against the company. Nick Denton, the company’s outgoing CEO, informed current staffers of the site’s fate yesterday, just hours before a bankruptcy judge approved Univision’s bid for Gawker Media’s other assets. Staffers will soon be assigned to other editorial roles, either at one of the other six sites or elsewhere within Univision. Near-term plans for Gawker.com’s coverage, as well as the site’s archives, have not yet been finalized.
