Gawker will raise early 2019

We still do not know exactly what Gawker will be in his next iteration, but we now know when he will come back.

The new gossip website, once feared and now closed, will be officially relaunched early next year, new owner Bryan Goldberg said on Tuesday.

Goldberg, the founder and CEO of Bustle Digital Group, has acquired Gawker at an auction this summer.

"We will not recreate Gawker as he was, but we will leverage Gawker's legacy and triumphs – and learn from his mistakes," said Goldberg in the memo provided to CNN.

Shepherding Gawker in a new era will be Amanda Hale, most recently from The Outline, who will serve as the site's publisher.

"She is the right person for this important job, and I am very excited to work with her," said Goldberg.

Gawker Media, which included sites such as Gizmodo, Deadspin and Jezebel, filed for bankruptcy and was eventually sold to the Spanish broadcasting company Univision and renamed Gizmodo Media Group in 2016 – a sequence of events provoked by a Devastating front legal assault that was secretly funded by billionaire Peter Thiel, who has long been the subject of criticism on Gawker's sites.

But Univision decided that Gawker.com's flagship site was too risky and chose to transfer it to bankruptcy, which remained until July when Goldberg, who is also co-founder of Bleacher Report, bought the site. and its archives of hundreds of thousands of ancient stories for less than 1.5 million dollars. (Univision, meanwhile, said it was looking to sell the old Gawker Media sites.)

The fate of the Gawker archives was one of the biggest concerns regarding the sale of the site. In the years since the sale to Univision, several disputed Gawker stories have been removed. And Goldberg, himself subject to Gawker's scornful cover in the past, might have a personal interest in bringing down some stories.

But Goldberg has not yet commented on his plan for the archives, nor has he offered much detail on what he intends to do with the site. In his memo to Bustle staff on Tuesday, Mr Goldberg said the new Gawker would be "dynamic, very relevant and worth visiting every day".

"Gawker will be completely separate from our other properties and will sit in a separate subsidiary," he said. "Having said that, he will have access to our shared resources, our technology and our business platform."

Disclosure: The author of this story worked with Hale on the 2013-2014 discussion point report.

CNNMoney (New York) First published on September 11, 2018: 3:29 PM ET