Thanks, Sassy. Here’s more context from an earlier post:

5) Should we feel bad for Wonkette editor Ken Layne?

The big news yesterday was the impending shake-up at Gawker Media, which Big Head DC has been reporting on for ages. After Gawker boss Nick Denton recently received the news that Alex Balk, one of his star NYC writers, was leaving for competitor Radar, Denton quickly scrambled to fill the slot. He decided to tap the increasingly-unhappy D.C.-based Wonkette editor Alex Pareene to fill the vacancy, since Pareene had been wanting to quit the blog for sometime and move back to New York. Pareene had dropped out of NYU to helm the Wonkette blog after Ana Marie Cox vacated the property last year.

After this move was decided, Denton was left with the prospect of keeping Layne on to write the D.C. blog, even though he lives on the West Coast. Instead of running with that odd scenario, Denton chose to hire two new editors (with actual journalism chops) to replace both Pareene and Layne. Layne will apparently continue to freelance for Wonkette, but this is the second time Denton has parted ways with the editor, who previously wrote the now-defunct Gawker Media title, Sploid.

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