Gawker Media was just bought by Univision for $135 million earlier this week, following a bidding process. They have decided that the Gawker.com will no longer be in operation. The announcement was posted on Gawker.com today, and included information about the decision: No information has been released yet on why Gawker.com is shutting down, out of all the Gawker Media properties, though Josh Marshall, editor of Talking Points Memo, tweeted an analysis: “Don’t know specifically. But Gawker proper was really the only one of the sites without a strong endemic ad proposition.” While news publications through in their two cents, other commenters provided a snapshot of opinions on the event:
— Nick Baumann (@NickBaumann) August 18, 2016
