New York - Gawker Media, the blog network that includes Gawker, Defamer, Gizmodo, Wonkette and Jezebel, announced on Monday that is selling its Idolator, Gridskipper and Wonkette sites. "To be blunt: they each had their editorial successes; but someone else will have better luck selling the advertising than we did," Gawker Media founder and publisher Nick Denton said in a post on Gawker.com.

New York - Gawker Media founder Nick Denton will take over as managing editor of the company's 14 blogs, in the wake of the resignation of the top three editors at its flagship Gawker.com site, The New York Times reported. In addition to Gawker, which claims an average of 10 million monthly page views, Gawker Media also operates Valleywag, Gizmodo, Defamer and Idolator.