Gawker is down but not out. It will continue publishing one way or another, according to founder and CEO Nick Denton, who posted a defiant message on the gossip blog under the headline "Here Is the Good News" on Tuesday. Denton's post came amid speculation that tech and gaming publisher Ziff Davis may shut the site down, if a sale goes through.

According to Pew, U.S. newspaper publishers' total advertising revenue sank 8% in 2015, compared to the prior year, with most of this decline due to continuing drops in print ads, which still make up 75% of total ad revenues, and fell 10% last year.

The newspaper earned Donald Trump's ire for publishing an article with the headline, "Donald Trump Suggests President Obama Was Involved With Orlando Shooting."

Of all the odd and implausible schemes to "save" the newspaper publishing business suggested over the years, this has to be one of the strangest - and, frankly, stupidest. The government of Morocco has passed a law specifically forbidding citizens of the north African kingdom from sharing their newspapers in public spaces. That's right: under the new rules, you can only read a newspaper you paid for yourself, and you may not pick up someone else's old newspaper left lying around a cafe or at the bus stop.

While a number of financially distressed publications and media companies have been sold for the symbolic price of $1, none has been offered up as the prize in an essay contest - until now. The publisher of a small community newspaper in Vermont is offering to give the newspaper away - offices and all - to the author of the best essay explaining why s[he) wants to become the next publisher.

SI prepares to host the first-ever Sports Illustrated Music & Fan Festival, scheduled to take place at Coney Island on August 28.

Gannett is going to continue pursuing its proposed purchase of Tribune (to be renamed "Tronc" effective June 20), despite repeated rebuffs and an increasingly nasty war of words waged by both sides.

The iconic Playboy mansion, a patrician (some might say pretentious) symbol of the elegantly dissolute lifestyle led by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has been sold to a neighbor. Hefner is allowed to continue living at the mansion for the rest of his life.

'BuzzFeed' became the first national news outlet to swear off Trump's ad dollars. The CEO argued that Trump's policies would directly harm 'BuzzFeed's own employees or impede its ability to continue publishing.

Shareholders voted to return all the proposed members of the board of directors -- and reject Gannett's $864 million takeover bid. Tribune then celebrated by changing its name to one of the worst corporate monikers in history, Tronc.