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Sunday, Jul 02

Oxfeld Out In Gawker Shakeup

Jesse Oxfeld and Jessica Coen at the Time 100 party in May

We were awoken from a Baden Powell-and-Hefeweizen-fueled holiday weekend haze by this bit of news: editor Jesse Oxfeld is out at Gawker. According to a source with knowledge of the site's inner-workings, Oxfeld was told Friday his contract would not be renewed. The move, first reported by Jossip, is just one in a number of sweeping changes at the buzzy blog network run by Nick Denton.

Among the changes:

A pair of Gawker Media's lesser-known sites, Screenhead and Sploid, will be closed if they are not sold by the end of July.

Oxfeld and Gizmodo's John Biggs are out, just a week after David Lat's jump from Wonkette to Elizabeth Spiers' company.

Chris Mohney moves from Gawker Media's Gridskipper to Gawker, assuming a new managing editor role. TMFTML's Alex Balk replace's Oxfeld as co-editor alongside Jessica Coen.

Wired editor Brian Lam will leave the magazine to become editor of Gizmodo, replacing Biggs.

Joshua David Stein, a contributor, replaces Mahoney at Gridskipper.

Gawker Media is prepping a music-related site. No word on when it will be launched.

We're told Denton will publish an extended post on his personal site on Monday explaining the rationale behind the moves.

Posted by Dylan | 07:58 PM | New Media

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