Choire Sicha

Our new friends Why Tuesday? have posted their New Hampshire photostream on flickr. Here are media reporter John Koblin and columnist Choire Sicha, filing.

At the Observer offices, Why Tuesday? does not immediately seem to refer to election nights.

Choire talks to some Paul revolutionaries.

Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, will take over as managing editor of the company's flagship site, Gawker.com, The New York Times reports, citing three employees.

Mr. Denton had been looking for a replacement since Choire Sicha resigned as managing editor at the end of last month, and indicated in a job listing for the position that he wants the site to break and develop more stories.

Around 9pm at the New Museum on Bowery, Radar editor Maer Roshan, dressed in an extremely well-fitting John Varvatos suit, was standing next to the bar. The suit was dark, but it wasn't entirely clear what color it was in a dimly lit room on the ground floor.

Mr. Roshan's magazine was throwing a party intended to honor "the most exciting rogues, renegades, and rule-breakers of the year." Film-maker Craig Brewer, writer Shalom Auslander, and Squid and the Whale star Jesse Eisenberg, among other rogues, renegades, and rule-breakers, were in attendance.

As Mr. Roshan surveyed the room, he considered the best time of year to host a party. "Summer, I think."  read more »

On Friday, Nov. 30, readers of an item on Gawker.com which was nominally about author and editor Keith Gessen were told that the Web site's managing editor, Choire Sicha, and editor Emily Gould were quitting.

On Monday, Dec. 3, nightlife editor Josh Stein told The Media Mob, he'll do the same.

"The reasons I'm quitting are kind of personal," he told Media Mob on Sunday night. "It has nothing to do with the job. I'm actually really happy with the job."  read more »

We don't really know what to say about this rapid-response Gawker post looking for a new managing editor in the wake of Choire Sicha's departure. Except that it's interesting to see the site subject to the same personnel issues, growing pains, internal disagreements, and existential crises that it so skilfully highlights in the rest of us.

So, buried at the end of this long post that's nominally about Keith Gessen's forthcoming book comes the news that Choire Sicha and Emily Gould are leaving Gawker.

Choire just confirmed the news to Media Mob.