UPDATE 1-Gawker exploring sale following Hulk Hogan case -sources
May 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM EDT
May 26 (Reuters) - Gawker Media, the New York-based owner of online news and gossip website Gawker.com, is exploring a sale following a court ruling that it pay $140 million to wrestler Hulk Hogan over the publication of a sex tape, according to two sources familiar with the matter.