Editors Emily Gould, Joshua David Stein and Choire Sicha, right-hand man to Nick Denton, quit the Gawker empire suddenly last week, and Denton’s new pay-per-pageload philosophy has dramatically riled the editorial sides of the company’s fourteen blog sites.

“Choire’s departure as managing editor, and that of his blogger protégés, will obviously be a complete pain,” Denton told the NY Times. “But we’ve been through it before, three times, and this change of the guard does give us the opportunity to accelerate the transformation of Gawker from cute blog to fully-fledged news site.”

Their departures come just weeks after popular editor Alex Balk left for Radar and associate editor Doree Shafrir left for the Observer.

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