RD Recap: Gawker Continues Losing Staff; Changes at Marie Claire

Gawker continues losing writers and editors as part of the long fallout from last week’s battle between editorial and business. William Arkin, the founder of Gawker’s national security site Phase Zero, takes the buyout (although it sounds like he was almost forced to do so), writing, “I hate to be hyperbolic, but want to understand ISIS or the Tea Party or Occupy or Charleston or Dylan? Look no further than Gawker and its ilk, which means look no further than twitter or your own so-called smartphone: We are making the world a miserable place.”