Valleywag Fired Nick Douglas For Saying 'Bring on the Lawsuits!'

A leaked internal email surfaced on Dealbook blog. It’s from Gawker executive Lockhart Steele to Gawker staff, and here it is:
We let Nick Douglas go from Valleywag yesterday.
As you know, we don’t make moves like this lightly, so let me explain our thinking, and the lessons from it.
Gawker sites are designed to be written from an outsider perspective. That’s one reason we’re game to hire writers like Nick Douglas, who came to San Francisco last January straight from college as a near-total outsider to the web scene. But anytime...
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