Ryan Osborn

For The @Guardian, I wrote about A.J. Daulerio's second act as a leading voice in the online addiction recovery community. Ten years ago, Daulerio was broke and disgraced after Gawker Media lost its invasion of privacy case to Hulk Hogan, forcing the sale of the company. Daulerio, the former Gawker editor who published the infamous Hogan sex tape, was viewed as the man most responsible for Gawker's demise. At the same time, he was trying to overcome an alcohol addiction and a lifelong battle with depression and loneliness. Daulerio has re-emerged in recent years, again as a media innovator — not as the cutthroat, traffic-obsessed editor reputation he garnered at Gawker, but as the gentle, deeply pensive and contrite author of The Small Bow, the newsletter he created in 2018 to chronicle his recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, and his attempts to reclaim his life as a changed man.