Gawker was just handed another loss in court this afternoon, when a Florida state court judge upheld the jury verdict rendered two months ago in the lawsuit from Hulk Hogan. During a court hearing this morning in St. Petersburg, Fla., judge Pamela Campbell denied motion for a new trial, meaning that Gawker Media, CEO Nick Denton and former editor in chief A.J. Daulerio are still on the hook for the more than $140 million awarded to Hogan. Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, sued Gawker for $100 million for defamation, loss of privacy and emotional pain. In 2012, the blog published a snippet of a 2007 sex tape involving Bollea and the wife of local radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge, aka Todd Clem. Gawker had attempted to get the verdict either reduced or removed entirely, and now will appeal the ruling in Florida's Second District Court. While this case is far from over, it caps a dizzying 24 hours filled with the kind of juicy details that Gawker would normally be frothing at the mouth to cover, if they themselves weren't caught in the crossfire. First, Denton was quoted in the New York Times on Tuesday as wondering if Hogan and his attorney Charles Harder had a secret, third-party benefactor that was funding Hogan's case, which had been speculated throughout the original trial due to the likely high legal fees. "My own personal hunch is that it's linked to Silicon Valley, but that's nothing really more than a hunch," Denton said to the Times. "If... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Author Nell Stevens will chair this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize judging panel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 04:32:47 UTC ]
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James Runcie will chair the judges for this year's BBC National Short Story Award alongside authors Fiona Mozley and Derek Owusu. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 22:24:54 UTC ]
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Pavilion has snapped up the “joyful” new book by pastry chef and “Junior Bake Off” judge Ravneet Gill. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 23:44:38 UTC ]
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Children’s author Zanib Mian, Waterstones children’s category specialist Georgina Mitchell, literary agent Hellie Ogden and Hachette Children’s Group’s senior commissioning editor Tig Wallace are to judge the Hachette Children’s Novel Award in 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-18 18:51:25 UTC ]
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The judging panel for the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021, to be chaired by scholar Hermione Lee, has been unveiled. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 03:14:31 UTC ]
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Illustrator Axel Scheffler is among the first in a selection of judges to be announced for Oscar's Book Prize 2021, seeking to find the best illustrated UK pre-school book of the year, with more to be revealed in the new year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 10:44:32 UTC ]
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Ruth Hogan is publishing her fourth novel with Two Roads in April 2021, Madame Burova—a story of community, love and friendship set in Brighton and spanning over 50 years. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-02 16:42:42 UTC ]
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This month, cartoonist Peter Bagge returns to his indie comics roots and to Buddy Bradley, one of his most enduring characters, when Fantagraphics publishes 'The Complete Hate', a three-volume collection of Bagge’s fictional chronicle of the gruff, heading nowhere fast 1990s slacker. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Kit Harington, Joanna Lumley and David Walliams are among the all-star cast for a new Penguin Random House audio edition of J M Barrie's classic Peter Pan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-23 01:15:27 UTC ]
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In his long-awaited answer to the government's civil complaint, former national security adviser John Bolton denied that he broke any laws in publishing his bestselling memoir 'The Room Where It Happened.' But with a DoJ motion for Summary Judgment now pending before the court, it's unclear... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In the 2021 Orwell Prizes, writer, academic and broadcaster Delia Jarrett-Macauley is to chair the Political Fiction judging panel while Anand Menon, a professor at King's College London and director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative, chairs the judges for the Political Writing Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-18 12:33:56 UTC ]
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Dapo Adeola is to judge a children's Christmas card design competition being launched for the first time this year by the National Literacy Trust. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 19:42:04 UTC ]
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Amanda Craig has been dropped as a competition judge by women’s writing magazine Mslexia over her signing of a letter to the Times in defence of J K Rowling. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-30 08:48:57 UTC ]
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The T S Eliot Prize-winning poet Roger Robinson, Irish writer and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson and novelist and short story writer Jon McGregor have been announced as judges for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-24 06:26:30 UTC ]
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At a September 24 teleconference, Judge Royce Lamberth suggested that a former NSC official's claims that Trump officials had abused the prepublication review process for John Bolton's bestselling memoir amounted to a "political diatribe." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The International Booker Prize has revealed its judging panel for next year's award, to be chaired by cultural historian and novelist Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-06 15:40:24 UTC ]
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A federal judge in Washington has issued a preliminary injunction against a major e-book piracy operation known as the KISS Library, after the operators of the site failed to show up at a hearing or to file any response to a lawsuit filed in July by the Authors Guild, Amazon Publishing, Penguin... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Under the August 31 order, the closely watched case over book scanning and lending is to be ready for trial by November 2021. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Dave Chisholm’s stellar graphic biography, 'Chasin’ The Bird: Charlie Parker in California', is a superbly crafted and imaginative record of a legendary two-year period beginning in 1945 during which bebop innovator Charlie Parker traveled to California. In this 6-page excerpt the great tenor... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Greystone Books is to partner with William Collins on two forthcoming non-fiction titles by Peter Wohllebe, author of The Hidden Life of Trees, with William Collins buying paperback rights in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-17 19:07:12 UTC ]
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