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- ↑ Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Permalancers, Unite!
- ↑ Maggie Shnayerson Out at Gawker | The New York Observer
- ↑ Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Massive Gawker Turnover Continues Unabated Archived 2008-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=125424 [ dead link ]
- ↑ Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass – New York Magazine
- ↑ Top Editor and Two Colleagues to Leave Media Blog Gawker – New York Times
- ↑ Harper's Magazine, September 1971