Gawker Explores Sale as Founder Seeks Thiel Debate

New York Times: A day after Peter Thiel explained why he had given about $10 million to fund multiple lawsuits against Gawker Media, the site’s founder published an open letter to the Silicon Valley billionaire, calling him “thin-skinned” and a “comic book villain” and challenging him to a public debate about the role of journalism in society. The letter from Nick Denton was published Thursday on Gawker, hours after the company acknowledged that it had hired an investment banker in recent weeks to help it explore a possible sale.