Leah Finnegan, a former New York Times and Gawker editor, is the managing news editor at Genius.

“After the Condé Nast article, Nick Denton decided Gawker needed to be 20% nicer, and I took a buyout because I was not 20% nicer.”

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Show Notes:

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[02:00] "Sunk" (Mitch Moxley • Atavist Magazine • May 2016)

[05:00] Alec Baldwin’s Blog at The Huffington Post

[05:00] The Daily Texan

[07:00] "Top 10 Hipster Schools" (Huffington Post • Jun 2010)

[13:00] News Genius

[17:00] "The ‘Food Babe’ Blogger Is Full of Shit" (Yvette d’Entremont • Gawker • Apr 2015)

[25:00] "This post has been removed." (Gawker • Jul 2015)

[28:00] "Louis C.K. Will Call You Up to Talk About His Alleged Sexual Misconduct" (Jordan Sargent • Defamer • May 2015)

[28:00] "Fred Armisen Has a Reputation" (Jordan Sargent • Gawker • Jan 2015)

[29:00] "An Open Letter From Dylan Farrow" (Dylan Farrow •New York Times • Feb 2014)

[30:00] "Who Wants to Remember Bill Cosby’s Multiple Sex-Assault Accusations?" (Tom Scocca • Gawker • Feb 2014)

[30:00] "Hannibal Buress Called Bill Cosby a Rapist During a Stand Up" (YouTube • Oct 2014)

[42:00] Margaret Sullivan on the Longform Podcast

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