Bloomberg: Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has removed a story from the gossip website alleging that a Conde Nast exec tried to arrange a meeting with an escort. In a blog post, Denton, who is also Gawker Media’s CEO, said the decision to publish the story “was an editorial call, a close call around which there were more internal disagreements than usual. And it is a decision I regret.” In the original Gawker story, Geithner said he denied knowing the escort and called the alleged requests a “shakedown.”