The Great Gawker Exodus Of '07

Gawker’s personnel problems are officially jumping from major to nuts. We already knew that Choire Sicha and Emily Gould had handed in their papers… but the New York Times reports (and the New York Observer confirms) that nightlife/food editor Joshua David Stein is leaving as well. That makes three major editorial departures in three days for a small-staff website that averages more than 250,000 visits a day.