Founder Nick Denton created the site's final post on August 22, 2016. On July 12, 2018, Bryan Goldberg, owner of Bustle and Elite Daily, purchased Gawker.com in a bankruptcy auction for less than $1.5 million. Gawker relaunched under the Bustle Digital Group on July 28, 2021, with Leah Finnegan as editor.

Will Gawker come back?

Gawker is back. ... She has also worked as an editor at Gawker and The New York Times. “The current laws of civility mean that no, it can't be exactly what it once was,” Ms. Finnegan wrote of Gawker in a note to readers published Wednesday, “but we strive to honor the past and embrace the present.

What does Gawker mean?

: to gape or stare stupidly gawked at the fish in the aquarium.