![]() Staff was asked to send press inquiries to the management team, but not barred from communicating with the press and we did not discuss social media. On the subject of whether staff were barred from speaking to the press or tweeting, Campwala wrote: “This is incorrect. These cuts were made to ensure the organization is on firm fiscal footing. While we removed immediate access to organizational systems, we provided departing staff with the option to have individualized sessions to access all of their documents and email, as part of their exit. As is common practice, in exchange for accepting those benefits staff had an option to agree to a mutual non-disparagement agreement clause in a separation and release of claims agreement. ![]() Here’s how he responded to the tipster’s claims: We offered impacted staff with as much severance and health care benefits as was fiscally possible. Update 7.8.22: Campwala got back to us after this post published. If any current or former Reveal employees want to talk, drop us a line at or for secure messaging. ![]() This is a developing story and we will update if he does. Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry. We reached out to Campwala for comment on the tip, but he did not immediately get back to us. They claimed departing staff “were forced to sign a NDA in exchange for two months severance” and “lost all access to slack and email and drive.” They also alleged that remaining employees were “scared because more firings are coming,” but barred from either tweeting or speaking to the press. This afternoon Current reported that Campwala had indeed “eliminated 10 positions due to financial concerns.” In a leaked email, Campwala also confirmed that the executive editor, Kevin Sullivan, had “made the decision to move on from CIR.” Neither returned Current’s requests for comment.īut the tipster also included some other details about the firing spree, which suggests there may have been additional context. One day in September 2014 the publisher of Gawker Media, Nick Denton, sent an e-mail to Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and billionaire. But it seems the tipster was right about several of the basic facts. We reached out to all of them for comment, though we have not yet heard back. Specifically, it claimed CIR’s top executive, Kaizar Campwala, had fired 10 staffers, largely editors and reporters, and that the newsroom’s executive editor had quit in protest.Ĭomparing Reveal’s current masthead with the WayBack Machine screenshot from February, it’s clear that several dozen staffers have left the newsroom in recent months. This saga is the subject of a new book by the author and (controversial) media strategist Ryan Holiday, called Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. Earlier this week, we received an anonymous tip from a burner email identified only as “ Nomen Nescio.” The subject line read “BLOODBATH AT REVEAL” and the tipster sketched a series of firings at Reveal, the audio journalism arm of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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