July 30, 2015: International Business Times: Exclusive: John Cook Named New Top Editor At Gawker After Resignations
John Cook will temporarily serve as executive editor at Gawker Media after Tommy Craggs resigned over CEO Nick Denton’s removal of a scandalizing post earlier this month, a memo obtained by International Business Times says.

Nov 13, 2014: New York Times: John Cook Leaving The Intercept to Return to Gawker
It was confirmed Thursday in a post on The Intercept, and by Gawker Media’s founder, Nick Denton, after first being reported by Sarah Ellison of Vanity Fair.

Nov 13, 2014: Poynter: John Cook’s rehire is sign of new, integrated editorial approach at Gawker Media
John Cook is returning to Gawker Media as part of what the company’s editorial director, Joel Johnson, calls its “first executive-level, meta-level team.”

Nov 13, 2014: Poynter: John Cook leaves The Intercept
Intercept Editor-in-Chief John Cook is leaving the publication and returning to Gawker Media to run investigations, an individual with knowledge of the hire tells Poynter. Cook was previously editor of Gawker. He announced he’d leave that publication for the First Look Media-owned property in March.

Mar 11, 2014: New York Observer: John Cook Leaves Gawker for Glenn Greenwald’s The Intercept
Gawker editor in chief John Cook is going to the Pierre Omidyar-backed First Look Media, where he will become editor in chief of The Intercept.