Gawker Media will shut down its gambling site Oddjack on Friday, December 2. Editor A.J. Daulerio was fired yesterday afternoon by Gakwer Media managing editor Lockhart Steele.

Daulerio was "contacted [by] Lockhart Steele in late April about interviewing for Gawker's new gambling site on the recommendation of Will Leitch. My gambling knowledge was casual at best, but it was something that I was interested in pursuing so I went. I took a writing test and made crude jokes about poker players. Voila, blogger," he told Fishbowl. However, Daulerio "knew after the initial two weeks that it was in trouble and I agonized over how to fix it, but to no avail.

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