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A grizzly bear waves at Madrid's zoo on July 7, 2010 on a hot summer day. AFP PHOTO/DANI POZO (Photo credit should read DANI POZO/AFP/Getty Images)

Vote of No Confidence—‘The Awl’ Leaves Medium, Returns to WordPress

"Personally I missed the ads."
By Brady Dale
Haley Mlotek

The Hairpin’s Editors Are Leaving

"Why would we tell anyone! That's no fun," Choire Sicha said when asked about The Hairpin's future.
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Smokers in 1944, back when cigarettes were cheap. (Photo via Getty Images)

New York’s Most Prominent Smokers Weigh in on Bumming Culture

Bumming is a bummer.
By Matthew Kassel

The 13-Card Stud: Times’ Chess Column Falls, but Its Bridge Writer Soldiers On

By Matthew Kassel
Rusty Foster

Tweet Cheat: How Rusty Foster’s Newsletter Became a New York Media Obsession

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
The Awl announces changes

The Awl Announces Changes in The Most Awl-ish Way Possible

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Book Reviewed: Choire Sicha’s ‘Very Recent History’ and the Rise of Post-Fiction

By M.H. Miller
Matthew Keys.

Matthew Keys Fired From Reuters

By Matthew Kassel

Techies Gather For a Real-Life Branch with Ev Williams and Jonah Peretti

By Jessica Roy
Nick Denton, founder of Gawker.

Deadliest Klatsch: Nick Denton Gives Gawker’s Drive-By Peanut Gallery a Promotion

By Kat Stoeffel
"alanna heiss and i photographed by araki in winter 1997" Courtesy @KlausBiesenbach

Klaus Biesenbach: A ‘Truffle Hound’ in the Twitterverse

By Rozalia Jovanovic

Awl City: The Awl Launches Awl Music, Tumblr-Powered Video-Radio Station for Awl Their Friends

By Foster Kamer
Molly Young.

Meet the Mollys! Social Network Sweeties Tumbl Upward

By Daniel D'Addario
Molly McAleer

Meet the Mollys! Social Network Sweeties Tumbl Upwards

By Daniel D'Addario
No, she’s the o.g. Molly. Her meditations on her headaches would make a brilliant Tumblr post. Her jacket-photo—emaciated, grimacing, smoking—remains the best avatar we’ve ever seen. Sample sentence: "Three, four, sometimes five times a month, I spend the day in bed with a migraine headache, insensible to the world around me."

Slideshow: The Mollys of Media

By Daniel D'Addario

The Hairpin, a ‘Ladies Website’ From The Awl, Goes Live

By Nate Freeman

The Book Industry’s New Danger Brigade

By Michael H. Miller

Dale Peck, Choire Sicha and Friends Start a Book Publishing Collective; First Title Out Next Month

By Leon Neyfakh

Get Writing, Folks: You Have 24 Hours to Submit a Piece to Longshot

By Nate Freeman

The Awl Will Launch a Comedy Blog

By Zeke Turner

The Awl Is Tripling in Size

By Zeke Turner

Book Deal for Awl ‘Rich People’ Column

By Molly Fischer

Gawker Alumni Launch Web Site for ‘Resonant, Weird, Important, Frightening’ News

By Gillian Reagan

Choire Sicha, An Ancestor of Ephemeral Gawker, Writes a Book

By Leon Neyfakh
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