Nieman Foundation at Harvard
The deletion also raises the question of what might happen to the dormant archive of Gawker.com, a pioneering site that left its mark on the media world and the subjects it covered controversially for more than a decade. It is also the latest deletion of a post from a Gawker-related property, a rare occurrence for news outlets. After Univision purchased Gawker Media’s sites last summer, the Spanish-language broadcaster removed six stories that were involved in pending litigation.
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