from gothamist.com
Another day, another blogger selling out to the man: Just days after Jossip's Corynne Steindler announced that she was moving to Page Six, Gawker's Jessica Coen cashes in her chips, leaving behind the vanguard assault on the MSM to join it as deputy online editor at Vanity Fair. After over two years and, by her count, over 6,000 posts, Coen (or, J.Co to Gawker commenters) announced her own departure in a pithy and eloquent post (aptly tagged with "Holy Shit I have to Start Wearing Pants"); she trades in a breakout career as a cable commentator for the glory of the Conde Nast cafeteria and the chance the forge VF's digital identity alongside online editor (and Panopticist) Andrew Hearst, and hopefully remind Graydon Carter that no one is ever too famous to offend.
Coen, who has the dubious honor of being the longest-serving Gawker editor, began her tenure at Gawker in August 2004, after being anointed by then-editor Choire Sicha (now of the New York Observer) who himself replaced founding editor Elizabeth Spiers (now of Dead Horse Media) and lasting through co-editors including but not limited to Radar's Matt Haber, New York's Jesse Oxfeld, and, currently, Alex Balk (plus a full complement of guest editors along the line). During her tenure, her daily dose of vitriolic estrogen helped keep the drones filling the city's cubicles duty-delinquent and wishing for a life of sitting in their underwear on a Thursday afternoon and thinking of clever things to say about anyone richer and more powerful than them (we refer you once again to Gawker commenters). We wish her all the best as she embarks upon her new job, and her new pants.
No evidence of foul play is afoot at this time; no word, either, on who Jessica's successor will be. Expect the betting pools to go online soon.
— Sven Hodges
