From today's edition of Page Six:
January 25, 2006 -- ORIGINAL Gawker editrix Elizabeth Spiers is hoping to give her old employer a much-needed run for its money. Spiers will launch dealbreaker.com, a Wall Street gossip blog, in March. If it's successful, look for Spiers to spin off sister sites just like Gawker Media boss Nick Denton did. The Alabama native, who quit her last job as editor-in-chief of mediabisto.com to finish her novel, "And They All Die in the End" (out next year from Simon & Schuster), has some unlikely inspiration in her new digs at lead investor Carter Burden's TriBeCa offices: an oil painting of former Journey frontman Steve Perry with the caption, "To Protect and to Rock."
UPDATE: Per Gawker's post here**,
I realize that actual reporting is Kryptonite to Gawker and that calling me for comment or asking me questions using my totally accessible email/IM/and-or-cell phone number would be historically unprecedented (having never done it before), cause space and time to collapse, pulverize us all in a single blast of plasma energy, etc., BUT...
Justin B. Smith is one of my investors (and one whose name Jesse should recognize.) We bought the domain off of someone else, thus the five year holding date.
If you'd have asked, I'd have told you.
I'm just saying.
** < Stewie > someone's feeling a leeeeeetttle threatened, hmmm? < / Stewie>