Gawker Media Merging Gizmodo and io9 Teams

Stars are aligning

Few companies take themselves more seriously than Gawker Media. Case in point: Its announcement that Gizmodo’s team is merging with io9’s to form something called Future Initiative.

The sites — Gizmodo, io9, Sploid, Space and more — will remain separate, but the writers and editors will be collaborating on items. That’s the easy way to say it. Here is how Annalee Newitz, io9’s current editor and the person who will oversee Future Initiative, explained it:

“2015 is going to be a year for stories with depth.

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