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Lockhart Steele
Steele in 2006
Born1973 or 1974 (age 49–50)
Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)Blogger, journalist
Known forCurbed

Lockhart Steele is an American blogger best known for the Curbed family of real estate, restaurant, and shopping news sites.

Early life and career

Lockhart Steele was raised in

Penguin Press.[1][2]

Steele moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in February 2001 and built a personal blog with short news on New York's social scene. Within three years, his site was popular mainly for its New York real estate posts on apartments and restaurants, with 3,000 daily page views. He moved these posts to Curbed.com in May 2004[1] and by early next year, left his job at the real estate magazine Cottages & Gardens, where he was an editor, to pursue blogging. He became managing editor at Gawker Media, which was known for its successful blogging business model, and managed its 11 blogs, including its New York and Washington media gossip sites.[2] Steele eventually split Curbed's restaurant posts to Eater.com (2005) and shopping posts to Racked.com (2007).[1] Vox Media purchased Steele's sites in late 2013 for an undisclosed price between $20 and 30 million in cash and stock.[3]

Sexual harassment allegations

Steele was fired from his job as Vox Media's Editorial Director in October 2017, over allegations of

Medium.com describing being sexually harassed by a supervisor.[4] Although Rohatensky did not name the company or the people involved in the post, Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff referred specifically to "issues raised by a former employee in a post on Medium" in a statement to employees announcing Steele's termination. Bankoff also stated that Steele had "admitted engaging in conduct that is inconsistent with our core values and is not tolerated at Vox Media."[5]

See also:
Me Too movement

References

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  4. ^ Rohatensky, Eden (October 12, 2017). "Why I'm not surprised when I hear that powerful men are fucking creeps". Medium. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
  5. ^ Jarvey, Natalie (October 20, 2017). "Vox Media Fires Editorial Director Lockhart Steele Over Misconduct". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 3, 2017.

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