Emily Gould

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Emily Gould (born October 13, 1981) is the former co-editor of Gawker.com, along with co-editor Alex Balk, managing editor Choire Sicha, and associate editor Doree Shafrir. She grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and attended college for two years at Kenyon College before transferring to Eugene Lang College in New York City.

Gould resides in Brooklyn, New York. She began her blogging career as one-half of The Universal Review before starting her own blog, Emily Magazine, and writing for Gawker on a freelance basis as the anonymous author of the Unsolicited column. She eventually replaced Jessica Coen at Gawker upon Coen's departure for Vanity Fair in September 2006. Before joining the Gawker staff, she was an associate editor at Disney's Hyperion imprint.

Gould, with Zareen Jaffery, is the co-author of the young adult novel Hex Education, which was released by Penguin's Razorbill imprint in May 2007.

On November 30, 2007 Gould resigned from Gawker.

[edit] Interview with Kimmel on Larry King Live

Emily Gould appeared on an episode of Larry King Live hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on April 6, 2007 during a panel discussion entitled "Paparazzi: Do they go too far?" During the interview, Kimmel accused Gould of irresponsible journalism resulting from Gould's popular blog.

Among the privacy issues resulting from what Gould calls "citizen journalism" that comprises the Gawker.com Stalker Map, Kimmel mentioned the power this could grant real stalkers, and that Gould and her website may ultimately be responsible for someone's death. In response, Gould said "We've been doing it for four years and it hasn't happened yet." Kimmel continued further to claim a lack of effort on the part of the site's publishers to verify facts in their stories, and the legal cases of libel that this will ultimately present for Gawker.

On May 4, 2007, Gould wrote an article for the New York Times about the interview.^[1] An article she wrote about her experiences with Gawker.com was the New York Times Magazine cover story on May 25, 2008.^[2] In the article she describes how the negative response to her television appearance caused her to suffer panic attacks which led her to seek therapy.