Gawker to Become Politics Site in Broad Restructuring

Shuts down Defamer, Morning After and Valleywag

Following a 2015 filled with upheaval, Gawker will look starkly different as it heads into 2016.

Gawker.com, which has focused primarily on the media world, will shift to covering politics, specifically the 2016 presidential campaign, under the direction of the website's new editor in chief Alex Pareene.

"Pareene's Gawker will focus intensely on politics, broadly considered, and the 2016 campaign," said Gawker Media executive editor John Cook in a memo. "Never before has a political season promised to be so ripe for the kind of punishing satire and absurdist wit."

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