Gawker Fires Mohney, Rehires Sicha

Gawker Media has fired Chris Mohney, the first-ever managing editor of its flagship, Gawker, six months into his tenure. Daily Intel, edited by former Gawker co-editor Jesse Oxfeld (and former mediabistro.com editor), has the scoop on his old digs:

Gawker Media, Nick Denton‘s swaggering blog network, yesterday fired Chris Mohney, the managing editor of its flagship site, Gawker, and will replace him with Choire Sicha [left], the New York Observer writer and editor who was solo editor of Gawker in 2003 and 2004.

Daily Intel is quick to point out Gawker’s stagnant traffic which had “doubled in the prior year” as the reason for Mohney’s ousting, and Sicha’s unhappiness at the Observer for his jump.

UPDATE: Mohney is moving to an as-yet-unannounced post within Gawker Media in the short term, says Eat The Press.

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