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Internally, Tom Scocca, while continuing his role as executive features editor, will return to Gawker in a formal way with a twice-weekly column. TвЂ™o that end, we will be redirecting resources to support AlexвЂ™s vision. Pareene is doubling down on that tradition.

GawkerвЂ™s biggest stories have always had a political component, from TorontoвЂ™s crack-smoking mayor to Roger AilesвЂ™ paranoia and power to Josh DuggarвЂ™s rank hypocrisy. Much of the siteвЂ™s current editorial palette already fits into this scheme - Andy CushвЂ™s reporting on the Oath Keepers in Ferguson, Keenan TrotterвЂ™s revelations about Bill OвЂ™ReillyвЂ™s domestic violence, and Allie JonesвЂ™ swift and sophisticated political jabs. Allie Jones and Sam Biddle will head out on the trail, Ashley Feinberg will obsessively monitor the dark and hilarious lunatic fringes on the right and left-will Hamilton Nolan will interview Bernie Sanders? Maybe! Gawker wonвЂ™t just do horse-race coverage, of course - it will take a вЂDaily ShowвЂ™ approach to covering the ever-intensifying culture wars, documenting, satirizing and reporting on the ways that political disputes are refracted in every aspect of our popular culture. The world sadly never got to see Racket, the satirical site Alex was cooking up over there, but AlexвЂ™s Gawker will take on some of that projectвЂ™s character.ДЄlex will redirect the Gawker team to hump the campaign. Never before has a political season promised to be so ripe for the kind of punishing satire and absurdist wit that Alex has perfected over his career-a spirit I saw in action up close when he was a Gawker blogger back in 2009, and also when he was a manager and editorial leader at First Look. PareeneвЂ™s Gawker will focus intensely on politics, broadly considered, and the 2016 campaign. While IвЂ™m grateful that, under Leah BeckmannвЂ™s leadership, Gawker continued to do important and conversation-driving work during its interregnum, IвЂ™m also relieved and excited that Alex Pareene is finally in place to start steering it in a new direction.

WeвЂ™ve recently corrected a longstanding lack of permanent leadership at that has left the staff wondering what the future holds, and unsure of what is expected of them.

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In a memo to the staff, John Cook, the executive editor of the siteвЂ™s parent company, Gawker Media, laid out what that shift in focus would entail:ДЄs you might expect, since the summer, Lacey and I have given a lot of thought to how to begin to optimize and sharpen all the sites going forward into 2016. On Tuesday, the siteвЂ™s founder, Nick Denton, announced that it was changing its focus to politics. has covered the news and gossip of Manhattan and the media world since the site started in 2003.