Valleywag Drops Editor, Shifts Mission To Less Sex, More Old School Reportage; Denton Returns To Tech Beat

Silicon Valley nerds having secret office sex can breathe a little easier today. Valleywag, Gawker Media’s year-old tech gossip blog, has dropped its 21-year-old editor, Nick Douglas, redesigned and shifted its mission from one of covering personal peccadillos — toning down “the personal coverage of civilians, because they haven’t done anything to seek out attention” — to more traditional, at least in a blog-sense, money stories.

This summer, Gawker admitted it lost a syndication with Yahoo, in part, because “Valleywag’s persecution of Lloyd Braun, head of Yahoo Media, probably cast a pall over the relationship.”

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