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Gawker Media Sells Off Gossip Blog Wonkette

20080414-wonkette.jpgWONKETTE is a gal on the move.

The acid-tongued blog is leaving its corporate home, the New York City-based Gawker Media empire, and will strike out on its own, under the management of managing editor Ken Layne and the Blogads ad network.

The site was made famous by its original editor, Ana Marie Cox, who's now a mainstay at Time magazine, and then shepherded by a series of editors, many of them head-scratchingly male.

Writes Layne:

What will change? Well, no more ordering hookers and blow off Gizmodo's profits, for one thing. Otherwise, your Wonkette will remain your Wonkette.
Thank God. Wonkette's like that aunt who gets bombed at every family function. And has Tourette's. What would D.C. media be without it?

» "Yes We Can: Wonkette Goes Solo" [Wonkette]


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