Crossword clues for gawker
Wiktionary
n. Someone who gawks, someone who stares stupidly
Wikipedia
Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City, focusing on celebrities and the media industry. The blog promotes itself as "the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip". According to third-party web analytics provider SimilarWeb, the site has over 23 million visits per month as of 2015. Founded in 2003, Gawker is the flagship blog for Denton's Gawker Media. Gawker Media also manages other blogs such as Jezebel, Deadspin, and Kotaku.
The site's editor-in-chief has been Alex Pareene since October 2015.
Gawker has come under scrutiny for posting videos, communications and other content that violated copyrights or the privacy of its owners, or was illegally obtained. On June 10, 2016, Gawker announced it would be filing for bankruptcy as a direct result of the monetary judgement against the company related to the Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit. On August 18, 2016, Gawker Media announced that its flagship blog, gawker.com, would be ceasing operations the week after. The other websites in the Gawker Media family would be unaffected by its shut down.
Usage examples of "gawker".
They dodged behind the procession and ducked around gawkers, keeping the last wagon, flanked by two mounted guards, in sight.
He carried her through the growing number of stunned gawkers, and headed to the purple house, where the door stood wide-open.
The gawkers had grown predictably bored once the patrol cars left, and the neighbors had retreated back behind their fences where his own car would not be noticed.
Village management had insisted gawkers and hawkers be kept at a respectable distance, to preserve the privacy of the simply retired as well as that of the suddenly acclaimed.
One of the gawkers started to call out to her, then shrunk back at the look on her face.
Gawkers formed an impenetrable barrier around the edges of the departures lounge, so thick, security had formed cordons to permit ticketed tourists, uniformed Time Tours employees, freelance guides, baggage handlers, and supply couriers to reach the roped-off lounge.
As I stood there, more gawkers arrived, forked over the admission fee, and took off down what was now a visible path through the overgrown yard.
The television people, with all their gaffers and go-fers and groupies and cameramen and couriers and technicians and electricians, were blazing with 200-watt eyeballs and ricocheting off each other and the assembled rabble of reporters, radio stringers, tourists, lollygaggers, policemen, and freelance gawkers.
Everywhere for blocks around, there were peddlers peddling, posers posing, gawkers gawking, drunks drinking, bums bumming, and hustlers hustling.
The latter was tickled pink to find out how to make big bucks by stomping down a few cornstalks and standing aside to watch the gawkers stream through his gate.
The heavy protective tarps were pulled back from the trailered cages so the gawkers could see in.