diff --git a/resources/recipes/gawker.recipe b/resources/recipes/gawker.recipe
index 8914b9d9a0..9b2b7c231b 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/gawker.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/gawker.recipe
@@ -16,14 +16,10 @@ class Gawker(BasicNewsRecipe):
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
     no_stylesheets        = True
     encoding              = 'utf-8'
-    use_embedded_content  = False
+    use_embedded_content  = True
     language              = 'en'
     masthead_url          = 'http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/gawker.com/img/logo.png'
-    extra_css             = '''
-	body{font-family: "Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif}
-	img{margin-bottom: 1em}
-	h1{font-family :Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:large}
-	              '''
+
     conversion_options = {
                           'comment'   : description
                         , 'tags'      : category
@@ -31,13 +27,11 @@ class Gawker(BasicNewsRecipe):
                         , 'language'  : language
                         }
 
-    remove_attributes  = ['width','height']
-    keep_only_tags     = [dict(attrs={'class':'content permalink'})]
-    remove_tags_before = dict(name='h1')
-    remove_tags        = [dict(attrs={'class':'contactinfo'})]
-    remove_tags_after  = dict(attrs={'class':'contactinfo'})
+    remove_tags = [
+            {'class': 'feedflare'},
+    ]
 
-    feeds = [(u'Articles', u'http://feeds.gawker.com/gawker/full')]
+    feeds = [(u'Articles', u'http://feeds.gawker.com/gawker/vip?format=xml')]
 
     def preprocess_html(self, soup):
         return self.adeify_images(soup)