Elizabeth Spiers
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Elizabeth Spiers (born December 11, 1976), a native of Wetumpka, Alabama, is the founder of Dead Horse Media, which publishes Dealbreaker, a gossip site about Wall Street, and AboveTheLaw, a gossip site about law. She is the author of the forthcoming novel, And They All Die in the End, to be published by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Group, USA. She is the former Editor in Chief of mediabistro.com. Prior to mediabistro, she was a contributing writer and editor at New York magazine. She was also the Founding Editor of Gawker.com, an influential New York media gossip weblog. She has written for the New York Times, Salon.com and The New York Post, among other publications, and has spoken at various media and technology conferences. She has also been a guest commentator on CNN, Fox News, CBS Marketwatch, MSNBC and VH1. She lives in New York.
