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Gizmodo (/ ɡ ɪ z ˈ m oʊ d oʊ / giz-MOH-doh) is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website. It was originally launched as part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton . Gizmodo also includes the sub-blogs io9 and Earther , which focus on pop-culture and environmentalism, respectively.
Gizmodo Media Group was an online media company and blog network formerly operated by Univision Communications (now TelevisaUnivision) in its Fusion Media Group division. The company was created from assets acquired from Gawker Media during its bankruptcy in 2016. [ 1 ]
Incorporated in the Cayman Islands, [1] as of 2012, Gawker Media was the parent company for seven different weblogs and many subsites under them: Gawker.com, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, and Jezebel. All Gawker articles are licensed on a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. [2]
G/O Media Inc. is an American media holding company [1] that owns and operates the digital media outlets Kotaku, The Root, The Inventory, and Quartz. [2] [3]It was formed in 2019 after the private equity firm Great Hill Partners purchased two digital portfolios from Univision: Gizmodo Media Group (Gizmodo, Jezebel, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Splinter, The Root, Kotaku, and Jalopnik) and the Onion ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. American writer (born 1977) Not to be confused with the founder of C-SPAN Brian Lamb. Brian Lam photographed by Christopher Michel (2014) Born (1977-05-23) May 23, 1977 (age 47) New York City, U.S. Alma mater Boston University Occupation(s) writer, journalist, reviewer, blogger Years ...
In 2017, following Univision Communications' purchase of Gawker Media assets and their reorganization as Gizmodo Media Group, the company began to migrate some of its existing websites to Kinja as well, including The A.V. Club, Fusion (whose online editorial operation was later re-launched as Splinter), The Root, and The Onion.
Longtime technology news and review site Gizmodo has been sold for the third time in the past eight years, this time to a European publisher looking to expand its coverage of the digital scene.
New York-based Gizmodo attracted worldwide attention in 2010 after buying an early prototype of Apple's iPhone 4 that Apple's late co-founder contended was stolen. Jobs, who died in 2011, also accused Gizmodo of trying to extort Apple to get the device back, resulting in an apology from a Gizmodo editor.