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Adam weinstein gawker5/9/2023 in creative nonfiction at Florida State University and am at work on my first book, a family memoir and history of gun culture in America.Ĭlick here for some hot resume-and-clip action. I’ve done some stuff in Iraq, won some game-show money, and attended Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism to learn investigative reporting, political/military affairs, business and media news, and literary criticism. ![]() My writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, GQ and Newsweek, among others. Before that, I worked as an editor or reporter for the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice and the Tallahassee Democrat. 2 The blog promoted itself as 'the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip'. Until mid-2013, I bounced between DC, SF, and the South as Mother Jones’ inaugural engagement editor and Tumblr dude, as well as its lead national security reporter. Gawker is an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry. Before that, I helped to launch Fusion as a digital editor and television producer. I also helped launch The Trace, the investigative magazine on gun culture and policy, as a writer and editor. It has has sewer gators, face-eating lunatics and George Zimmerman. I launched and edited Gawker’s highly successful Fortress America blog. Meet Adam Weinstein: Gawker's man in Florida - Digiday. From 2013 to 2015, I was a senior writer for Gawker, specializing in national insecurity: domestic discontents, guns, global affairs, and militaria. Before that, I edited some features for the New York Times Magazine’s At War blog, helped run Task & Purpose and was a senior editor at Fusion, the ABC News-Univision joint venture, running the 20-member investigative team’s digital operations and managing spreads like this. I’m EXTREMELY suspicious of those who do not want press to have an antagonistic relationship to people in power.I’m the national security editor at The New Republic. The network announced Tuesday that it had hired former Gawker senior writer Adam Weinstein to lead its expanded investigative team, which will double from 10 to 20 employees. Not everyone has to feel good about the truth. ‘I would not have chosen to run it as it is,’ he said.īut others have defended it, including Jezebel writer Natasha Vargas-Cooper. ![]() I’m a fan of Gawker & several of its journalists, but that article is reprehensible beyond belief: it’s deranged to publish that.Īnd Kara Swisher, the gay Re/Code edtior added: ‘An appalling act of gay shaming disguised as a story – thought we were way past this crap.’Įven Adam Weinstein, a senior writer of Gawker, said he did not stand by the post and said he had ‘no part’ in it. Glenn Greenwald, a prominent gay journalist, tweeted: Everyone has a right to privacy when it comes to their gender identity or sexual orientation,’ they said in an article on the ethics of outing. ‘Don’t out someone who doesn’t want to be out. And Jezebel, a sister website to Gawker, is very clear that the company does not out people. The founder of Gawker Media is Nick Denton, an out gay man. The porn star then went to Gawker and was given anonymity. Realizing what could happen, the executive then backed out of the deal. The two, according to Gawker, agreed to meet for sex until the porn star realized the man’s brother could help him out with a discrimination lawsuit against his landlord. Adam Weinstein, FSULecturer Loses Job over Rant against 'Filthy Rodent Muslims,' Gawker, December 10, 2014, accessed August 26, 2015, http://gawker. Jordan Sargent, who wrote the story, posted screenshots of text messages and photos that allegedly identify the man involved, who is married to a woman, has children and his only connection to the public eye is having a brother who was a former official in the Obama administration. At this point, several of the Gawker editor’s followers chime in, mocking the MRA supporter. Adam Weinstein (AdamWeinstein) September 1, 2014. ![]() ![]() The story involves a Condé Nast executive, who Gay Star News has chosen to keep anonymous, who attempted to hire a gay porn star for sex at a cost of $2,500 (€2,300). Adam Weinstein (AdamWeinstein) September 1, 2014.CHSommers But clearly, being the white knight you claim men need seems to be profitable, so don’t let me impede. Gawker is being attacked for running an article that many are calling ‘gay shaming’ as it outs a magazine executive accusing him of hiring a gay porn star for sex.
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