Executive Editor Tommy Craggs and Editor-in-Chief Max Read Resign from Gawker; Craggs Says Advertisers Threatened to Pull Out Over Gay Escort Story

At the Hollywood Reporter, "Gawker Editor-In-Chief Resigns After Controversial Post Gets Take Down." (Via Mediagazer.)

Also at the Wrap, "Gawker Executive Editor and Editor-in-Chief Both Resign After Gay Porn Story Fiasco

."In memos sent to staff and management, Craggs and Read said an unprecedented breach of the firewall between Gawker’s business and editorial side had occurred, and they could no longer operate at the company.

“On Friday a post was deleted from Gawker over the strenuous objections of Tommy and myself, as well as the entire staff of executive editors,” Read wrote in a memo to Gawker’s partnership group. “That this post was deleted at all is an absolute surrender of Gawker’s claim to ‘radical transparency'; that non-editorial business executives were given a vote in the decision to remove it is an unacceptable and unprecedented breach of the editorial firewall, and turns Gawker’s claim to be the world’s largest independent media company into, essentially, a joke.”

That's a huge aggregation at Mediagazer, for good reason.

And ICYMI, at the Other McCain, "Web Site Everybody Hates Reminds Everybody Why We Hate Them," and "The #GamerGate vs. Gawker War."

PREVIOUSLY: "Nick Denton's Gawker Removes Gay-Shaming Post About Condé Nast CFO."