The Awl

The Awl
Type of site
Current events, culture
Available inEnglish
DissolvedJanuary 31, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-01-31)
Created byChoire Sicha
Alex Balk
EditorSilvia Killingsworth
Key peopleMichael Macher (publisher)
RevenueUnknown
URLtheawl.com
LaunchedApril 20, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-04-20)
Current statusInactive

The Awl was a website about "news, ideas and obscure Internet minutiae of the day"[1] based in New York City. Its motto was "Be Less Stupid."

History

Founded in April 2009 by David Cho and former Gawker editors Choire Sicha and Alex Balk out of Sicha's East Village, Manhattan apartment, after they were laid off by the pop culture magazine Radar,[2][3] the trio decided to launch their own blog, completely "out of pocket with a bare-bones site." The site's name was coined by contributor Tom Scocca, after the small pointed tool used for piercing holes. "He’d always wanted to have a newspaper named The Awl. So we semi bought it from him in a friendly arrangement." Sicha told Vanity Fair.[4]

The first posts on the site were an infographic by Emily Gould of Gawker's office seating chart, "a video of a Miss USA contestant responding to a gay marriage question from Perez Hilton, and an item linking to a Reuters article about physicist Stephen Hawking being taken to the hospital."[1] Initial expectations by media observers were for the site to be a carbon copy of Gawker, but, said Nieman Journalism Lab’s Justin Ellis, "instead it was something smaller and focused on the writing, where people can write about the stuff they’re passionate or super nerdy about.".[3]

In mid-January 2018, The Awl announced that it would end publication at the end of that month.[5] It printed a final obituary to itself on January 31, 2018.[6]

Staff

As of July 2015, The Awl Network employed 13 people, as well as many freelance contributors.[3] After editing The Awl for over almost two years, Matt Buchanan and John Herrman announced their departure from the site in February 2016.[7] In March 2016 it was announced that Silvia Killingsworth would take over the editing position.[8] The Awl was published by John Shankman from 2011 until May 2014, when Michael Macher became publisher.[9] In 2011, David Cho left The Awl to join ESPN-affiliated sports site Grantland.[10]

Sister sites

The Awl had four sister sites: Splitsider, a comedy website; The Hairpin, a site geared toward women; The Sweethome, a home-furnishings review site; and The Billfold, a blog with a focus on personal finances.[2][4][11][12] Laura Olin edits The Awl's newsletter entitled Everything Changes. Buchanan and Herrman also launched a podcast for the site.[3] The site also launched an app on the Apple App Store called The Awl: Weekend Companion.[13] On March 22, 2018, New York Media, the publisher of the magazine New York, announced that it had acquired Splitsider and would be folding it into the operations of its Vulture website.[14] Brian Lam's tech review site The Wirecutter also originated with The Awl before merging with The Sweethome and being acquired by The New York Times.[15][16][17]

References

  1. ^ a b Reagan, Gillian (April 20, 2009). "Gawker Alumni Launch Web Site for 'Resonant, Weird, Important, Frightening' News". The New York Observer. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Carr, David (October 24, 2010). "Against Odds, Web Site Finds Niche". The New York Times. Retrieved September 4, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d Dzieza, Josh (July 9, 2015). "Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl?". The Verge. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  4. ^ a b Pressman, Matt (April 21, 2009). "Choire Sicha's Plea: Stay Away, Stupid People!". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on November 30, 2009.
  5. ^ "Awl Ends". www.theawl.com. January 16, 2018. Archived from the original on January 28, 2018.
  6. ^ Balk, Alex (January 31, 2018). "The Awl, 2009-2018". www.theawl.com. Archived from the original on February 13, 2018.
  7. ^ "Job Open (Again)". www.theawl.com. February 23, 2016. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016.
  8. ^ "Job Filled". www.theawl.com. March 1, 2016. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018.
  9. ^ "Changes At The Awl". www.theawl.com. May 29, 2014. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014.
  10. ^ Rovzar, Chris (June 29, 2011). "Awl Publisher and Co-Founder David Cho Leaves for Grantland". New York. Retrieved September 4, 2013.
  11. ^ Hayden, Erik (September 8, 2010). "Gawker Slays Newspapers, Shrugs". The Atlantic Wire. Retrieved September 4, 2013.
  12. ^ McGann, Laura (June 14, 2010). "The Awl wants to win on the web with great writing, not SEO tricks". Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 4, 2013.
  13. ^ "The Awl: Weekend Companion". iTunes. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  14. ^ Spangler, Todd (March 22, 2018). "New York Magazine Publisher Buys Comedy Site Splitsider, Will Fold It Into Vulture". Variety.
  15. ^ Ho, Karen K. (June 18, 2018). "Testing out a new future for Consumer Reports". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  16. ^ Carr, David (October 24, 2010). "The Awl Finds Some Level of Online Success". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  17. ^ Smith, Gerry (September 13, 2017). "New York Times Rebrands Wirecutter as Product Review Sales Grow". Bloomberg News. Retrieved April 26, 2019.

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