It was the most infamous, controversial, and successful gossip website in the world: Gawker, Nick Denton’s devilish brainchild that modernized American media and resuscitated a fearless tabloid sensibility deemed all but lost after Spy magazine and The Tattler went to magazine heaven.

In Gawker: An Oral History, bloggers, videographers, and reporters reveal the inner-workings of Denton’s empire—from interoffice romances to rampant attacks on New York’s rich and famous, from its halcyon days as a guerrilla operation run out of coffee shops to its evolution into an online juggernaut.

Cover design by Adil Dara.