Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Managing Partnership as a whole is responsible for the Company’s management and direction, but they do not and should not make editorial decisions. Let me be clear. This was a decision I made as Founder and Publisher — and guardian of the company mission — and the majority supported me in that decision. This…
An editor who announced his resignation from Gawker Media on Monday apparently paid for a $546 meal with a company credit card just before news of his departure broke. Departing executive editor Tommy Craggs appeared to post a photo to Instagram showing the hefty bill a little before Gawker announced news of his resignation. The…
Michael Wolff, USA TODAY 2:04 p.m. EDT July 13, 2015 The news media, like most businesses built on craft and culture, have largely worked as an apprentice system. Younger people learned skills and language from older people. A good media job would have been judged on the basis of the caliber of the more senior…
There’s something so wonderfully easy about reading this column in a physical newspaper. You turned the page, and here it is, with few annoyances or distractions, in an ultra-high-definition typeface which was custom-designed with pleasurable reading in mind. Or – wait – are you reading this on a phone? Did you follow a link from…
THE scene in Disney’s “Inside Out” might not have meant much to the kids in the movie audience, but for me, it was priceless: While riding on the Train of Thought, a character, Joy, tips over two cargo boxes, one labeled “facts,” the other “opinion.” The spilled pieces mingle, and she suggests that trying to…
From Gawker to Ashley Madison, moralizers are punishing private people in public for adultery. Since when does the Internet care so much about monogamy? On Friday, Gawker published a post alleging that a Condé Nast executive tried to arrange an evening with a gay escort. Now, a hacker or group of hackers calling themselves The…
by Frederic Filloux News sites use trackers more indiscriminately than ever. A random sample of twenty digital properties yields stunning results. Last week, we looked at how long web sites take to load, today, we see how messy their user data collection is. When landing on Politico’s home page, your browser loads about 100 pieces…
Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning from the company. In letters sent today, Craggs and Read informed staff members that the managing partnership’s vote to remove a controversial post about the CFO of Condé Nast—a unprecedented act endorsed by zero editorial employees—represented an indefensible…
Our union drive has expressed at every stage of the process that one of our core goals is to protect the editorial independence of Gawker Media sites from the influence of business-side concerns. Today’s unprecedented breach of the firewall, in which business executives deleted an editorial post over the objections of the entire executive editorial…
article start “Trainwreck,” the new Amy Schumer comedy, has a strong female protagonist who does things her own way – one small step for feminism and one giant leap for Hollywood. But the movie also advances a misleading trope about working women that is starting to get a little tired: the female journalist who hooks…