Gawker Media Staffers Are Still Ambivalent About Kinja — buzzfeed.com

More than two years after its launch, Gawker Media’s discussion/publishing platform Kinja is still mystifying employees and creating tensions between the company’s editorial staff and top executives. One of the company’s sites, Jezebel, published a post Monday criticizing its parent company for not taking enough action to prevent a flurry of comments filled with GIFs depicting rape scenes. With most top-level employees on retreat in Budapest this week, a source told BuzzFeed that Gawker Editorial Director Joel Johnson emailed Jezebel staffers after the post was published to say that he would need “two days to think of a real solution, but to not give him any more than that.”

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