Gawker and Jezebel went down on Monday afternoon in an apparent server failure, but were quickly revived.

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Gawker Media’s other sites, including Gizmodo, io9 and Kotaku, remained live.

A Gawker editor and a spokesperson did not immediately respond to emails from FishbowlNY requesting comment.

Sorry for the brief downtime! We are back. Hi.

— Valleywag (@Valleywag) April 30, 2013

SocialTimes: Airbnb is rolling out a new identity verification program because people are as creepy as you thought.

TVSpy: Hiccups, the non-silent killer, claim yet another victim.

AgencySpy: J.B. Smoove is a fan of The Economist. He loves getting all up in that German bank reform.

Three obstacles stand in the way of former Mitt Romney campaign intern Adam Savader‘s political career.

1. Being arrested for allegedly cyberstalking young women and blackmailing 15 of them into sending him nudes
2. A creepy smile — a smile some may say should have indicated his potential for sexploitation and the fact that we missed it a sign of the Obama administration’s degradation of national security (we’re lookin’ at you, Lindsey Graham)
3. A breaking news problem

Last week, BuzzFeed’s Dorsey Shaw diagnosed Anderson Cooper with a “breaking news problem,” abusing the terms to describe news events that were neither new nor breaking.

The boy-who-cried-wolf use of the term has, as Shaw put it, rendered it all but meaningless.

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The Fifth Avenue co-op owned by Arthur O. Sulberger, the former publisher of The New York Times, has sold for $12.5 million, $1.5 million less than its original asking price Bloomberg reported.

The deal for the four-bedroom at 101 Fifth Ave. was completed on April 11. It was listed last December for $14 million.

Sulzberger died last Sept. 29 at his home in Southampton after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 86.

But he left behind a legacy at the Times, having morphed the company into a publicly-traded multimedia firm with television, radio and magazine assets.

When you publish a scoop like the Jason Collins story, you’re bound to enjoy a traffic boost. However, we do wonder if Sports Illustrated expected record numbers. According to the magazine, SI.com netted almost four million unique visitors yesterday, as a direct result of the Collins article. It was the most traffic ever for the magazine’s site.

The 3.7 million visitors bested SI.com’s previous high of 3.6 million, set on February 9, 2010. That day featured the power-packed combo of the Winter Olympics and the debut of that year’s swimsuit issue.

Collins’ coming out tale beat bobsledding and bikinis. Not bad. Not bad at all.

Editors at Latina love getting thoughtful pitches. The mag has a small staff and relies on outside contributors for a whopping 80 percent of its content. Although the pub often assigns articles out to freelancers, executive editor Damarys Ocaña says she would “love to get really informed, specific pitches… that would make my life a lot easier.”

Ocaña is always looking for great writers who know Latin culture and are familiar with the publication. But do the writers, themselves, have to be Latin? “No, definitely not,” said Ocaña. “We have plenty of freelancers who aren’t.”

For more info, read How To Pitch: Latina.

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Jeffrey Hayzlett is joining Bloomberg Television as a contributing editor. Hayzlett is the founder and CEO of The Hayzlett Group, a marketing consulting company. He is also a published author, public speaker and from 2006 to 2010, served as CMO of Eastman Kodak Company.

At Bloomberg TV, Hayzlett will be offer an “insider’s perspective on corporate marketing, branding and social media management strategies,” according to a release.

“I look forward to providing the network’s audience with practical insight based on my experience,” said Hayzlett, in a statement.

The above is a correction to The New York Times’ Corrections page. Someone had too much to drink. Or just more than normal.

Clear Channel’s media and entertainment arm tapped Brian Kaminsky to head its digital division as the executive vice president of operations.

The New York City-based hire is effect immediately and he will report to Brian Lakamp, president of digital.

Kaminsky, who previously worked as the chief operating officer and general manager of The Huffington Post, will manage the digital radio service iHeartRadio and oversee its stable of station websites.

After AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the news site in 2011, Kaminsky led the integration of the site into the media giant, helping to triple HuffPost’s revenue and users.

The shift to digital radio is perhaps, then, ironic.

Since HuffPost came under AOL’s umbrella, the mail service once known as America Online has parsed down some of its other media brands. Last week, it shuttered AOL Music — including its online radio service — and laid off all its employees.

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According to the new circulation report from the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), The New York Times has been enjoying some success, but the New York Daily News and New York Post haven’t. For the period between March 31, 2012 and March 31, 2013, the Times’ circulation grew by 18 percent; while the Daily News and Post saw their numbers drop by 11 percent and 10 percent, respectively.

As of the end of last month, the Times had a circulation of 1,865,318, but that still wasn’t enough to take the top spot from the Wall Street Journal. The paper’s circulation experienced a solid 12 percent growth, and clocked in at 2,378,827.

Much like the Daily News (516,165) and Post (500,521), Newsday’s numbers left a lot to be desired. The Long Island daily saw circulation drop by five percent over the past year, down to 377,744.

Let the over celebration or casual dismissal of the numbers begin.