Goodbye and Thank You From Matt Novak

When I sire an e-mail from Gizmodo ’s former editor in chief - in - boss Joel Johnson asking if I ’d be interested in writing for this site , it felt up like winning the drawing . The year was 2013 and I was writing the Paleofuture blog for Smithsonian magazine while pen freelance articles on the side . consort to Joel , not only would I be spell full - time for just one publication , it would be a website that provide the exemption to write bluntly , no matter the topic . After 10 twelvemonth of incredible freedom , my sentence at Gizmodo iscoming to a close . But I wanted to say thank you to my gifted coworkers and the readers of Gizmodo , because this place would n’t be the same without you .

Gizmodo has go steady a few different owner over the class , but the ethos has remained the same : enjoin the verity and do n’t be afraid to burn bridges in defending team of your impression . At least that was my take on why we were successful . This website has been many thing to many citizenry , but I always feel like the thing that set us apart was our power to call bullshit in plain language whenever necessary . The New York Times and Washington Post are fantastic news outlets , but sometimes state things plainly is a radical act not give to the grueling - news division of newspapers that do great reporting .

Respectable newspapers could n’t just call Donald Trump a white supremacist when he was in office or excuse that Elon Musk was an American oligarch make billions from government coffers , even though those things were objectively true . But Gizmodo and its babe site have that exemption , and I go for they never lose it . Because a factually precise story , which also includes a form of radically reliable context for the news , seems like an increasingly scarce product here in the 2020s . No one ever called me unbiased during my 10 years at Gizmodo , but I hope they could call me both precise and passionate about the stories I covered .

A portion of the December 26, 1965 edition of newspaper comic “Our New Age,” written by Athelstan Spilhaus and illustrated by Gene Fawcette.

A portion of theDecember 26, 1965edition of newspaper comic “Our New Age,” written byAthelstan Spilhausand illustrated by Gene Fawcette.

My passions will be affect on from Gizmodo after this week , as I ’ve been made tautological — a Word of God I ’m still a second bemused by , if we ’re being entirely honest . But you ’ll be capable to keep up with my work atPaleofuture.com , which also has an archive of all my Paleofuture article dating back to 2007 . I ’ve even launched a new subscription service calledPaleofuture+where I ’m sharing undivided novel articles and rarified futurist videos . Members also get approach to an exclusive Discord host to chitchat about preceding vision of the future .

Of course , it was n’t all serious line over the past 10 twelvemonth at Gizmodo . We also had the exemption to indite lots ofweird stuffthat you would n’t determine anywhere else . And I ’m going to miss the times we develop to be uncanny with you all .

Again , give thanks you to everyone at Gizmodo , include the many editors I ’ve had over the years . I ’m sad to be leaving , but I know this station will stay necessary recital for anyone who cares about technical school and acculturation in the year to come . I have a go at it this job and I really did feel like I won the lottery . But everything end at some decimal point , and I ’m just hugely grateful that I had the opportunity to bring my dream job for a decade .

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