It’s A Girl! (At Gawker, Finally)

While Gawker Media has plenty of high-profile women — Anna Holmes, Gina Trapani, Lux Alpatrom, Analee Newitz — it’s gotten some flack for a while now for having a chick-free masthead at its flagship site, Gawker.com. The site that launched such well-known bloggers as Elizabeth Spiers, Jessica Coen and Emily Gould saw its last female editor in December 2008 with the departure of Sheila McClear. Since then it’s been all-male all the time, to the frustration of many readers, watchers, former editors and boyfriends of former editors.