Let’s navigate to this day in New York City, three years ago, when The Awl was something I thought we’d never lose. The gray sky got one star. “Mist gnawed on the tops of buildings ...

The Awl and The Hairpin announced Tuesday that they plan to shut down at the end of the month, the latest niche sites to get squeezed out in an ultra-competitive digital ad market dominated by ...

In 2015, the Verge asked this question: “Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl?” The reason is: Because it has always been one of the best blogs on the internet.

After a nine-year run, the small but influential website The Awl is shutting down, along with its sister publication The Hairpin. The sites are the latest in a string of small publications to ...

New York Media, the publisher of New York Magazine and several websites, has acquired the comedy website Splitsider from The Awl Network in a bid to beef up its coverage of pop culture. The Awl ...

The Awl showed many of us that diving into the weird and marginal could be fun and meaningful—and still produce great writing. On January 16, 2018, The Awl announced its plans to cease editorial ...

If you were going to assemble a business plan for a Web site, you would look closely at everything The Awl (theawl.com) did and then head in precisely the opposite direction. There is that name ...