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The Awl
The Awl is a website about "news, ideas and obscure Internet minutiae of the day" based in New York City. Its motto is "Be Less Stupid."
Founded in April 2009 by David Cho and former Gawker editors Choire Sicha and Alex Balk out of Sicha's East Village apartment after being laid off by the pop culture magazine Radar, the trio decided to launch their own blog, completely "out of pocket with a bare-bones site." The site's name was coined by contributor Tom Scocca, after the small pointed tool used for piercing holes. "He’d always wanted to have a newspaper named The Awl. So we semi bought it from him in a friendly arrangement," Sicha told ''Vanity Fair''.
==History==
On the site's launch, The Awl's ''About us'' page asked readers, “What if there were a website that zippily surveyed a wealth of resonant, weird, important, frightening, amusing bits of news and ideas? And what if it weren’t totally clogged with reality show linkbait?”〔 The first posts on the site were an infographic by Emily Gould of Gawker’s office seating chart, "a video of a Miss USA contestant responding to a gay marriage question from Perez Hilton, and an item linking to a Reuters article about physicist Stephen Hawking being taken to the hospital."〔 Initial expectations by media observers were for the site to be a carbon copy of Gawker, but "instead it was something smaller and focused on the writing, where people can write about the stuff they’re passionate or super nerdy about," says Nieman Journalism Lab’s Justin Ellis.〔
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