Wonkette is once again a woman. The D.C.-based political blog, which was founded back in 2004 by Gawker Media and edited early on by Ana Marie Cox, changed hands last week. L.A.-based writer Rebecca Schoenkopf announced on Wonkette Friday that she was the new owner and “Editrix,” buying the web property from editor Ken Layne. The two apparently go way back, with Schoenkopf writing on her blog Commie Girl Collective (she swears, she’s not actually a “Commie”) that she and Layne went on a terrible date in the ’90s. “It went so well we didn’t speak to each other again for… eh … eight years?” she wrote. Clearly, they patched things up.
Besides Layne’s eventual departure, Schoenkopf says that not much will change at Wonkette. “As to the rest of the site, all the bloggers you know and love will continue until I have run it into the ground and can’t afford to pay them anymore, which is part of my SECRET PLAN to turn Wonkette into the one thing I’ve always really wanted: a Mommy Blog,” Schoenkopf joked in her introductory Wonkette post.
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Schoenkopf has no current plans to move to the District, though she said in interviews that she plans to keep the website politically focused.
