On July 16, published a tabloid story about a male escort’s thwarted dalliance with a media executive. We’ve made some minor edits to the original piece since Friday, but here it is in full. In his email to me, Cook remarked, however, that he trusted that the piece would get picked up elsewhere, and that he hoped it would. He and I talked on the phone on Saturday and again on Sunday.Ĭook’s decision to kill the piece was reportedly protested heavily by Gawker staff members on Friday, many of them insisting that they’d prefer to see it published on, if anywhere.
On the day it was expected to be published (after edits and approval from Gawker’s editor-in-chief Alex Pareene and Gawker’s legal team), executive editor John Cook emailed me and Leah Beckmann (the story’s editor) and explained that he’d be killing the piece after deciding that he was “done with Gawker writing about Gawker.”Ĭook also noted that I had not reached out to him for comment in the “the four-month reporting and editing process.” But on August 4, I had emailed Cook asking him to please “call me any time” to speak about the story, though he never did. It had been originally written in July, kiboshed in August, reported further in October, and prepped to run in early November. The following story - on the treatment of female editors, writers, and managers at Gawker Media - was scheduled to appear on on Friday, November 13.
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