Meltdown at Gawker Media; what now?
In light of a story that divided the Gawker staff, Brian Stelter speaks with Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, about the future of his company. Meltdown at Gawker Media; what now?.
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Gawker buyout watch | Capital New York
paging_filter Last week, Gawker Media C.E.O. Nick Denton announced that he would offer generous severance packages to employees who quit because they objected to Gawker’s new editorial policy. On July 16, Gawker published a controversial post about a male media executive, with a wife and three kids, who allegedly solicited a male escort. After near-universal…
Is This Nick Denton’s Exit Strategy From Gawker? – The Daily Beast
Today the controversy-beset website moved to new offices. But is its founder really in it for the long haul, as he insists? One night in mid-June, weeks before his privately-held company suffered a very public meltdown over the widely condemned outing of a heterosexually married Condé Nast executive, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton had dinner…
Writing and What Comes With It
Should the published writing of professional writers be subject to any criticism? I believe yes. At least one professional writer disagrees. Mary Elizabeth Williams is a longtime writer for Salon. She writes about “culture,” in the most tepid sense of the word. As an essayist, her style is to follow around day-old conventional wisdom like…
I was slimed by Gawker: In the worst year of my life, I became a regular target — and it was devastating – Salon.com
It was a bloop in IM from a colleague. “Oh god, I’m so sorry,” it read. “And screw Gawker.” It was an email a moment later, from my boss. “Just ignore it,” it read. “It’s not a big deal; they do this to everyone.” That’s when my heart lunged into my stomach. That was four…
Gawker to Relaunch Monday | FishbowlNY
After a week of chaos, Gawker Media will attempt to wipe the slate clean (so to speak) on Monday by relaunching Gawker.com. Not only that, but the name “Gawker” might be on its way out too. “We have an awesome portfolio,” Denton told Digiday. “We produce a lot of drama. And sometimes, we become the story….
Nick Denton: ‘I’ve Wanted a Gentler Gawker for a While’ | FishbowlNY
Gawker founder Nick Denton is doing his best to put a positive spin on the chaos that has enveloped his media empire. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Denton said that perhaps the now-deleted awful item that outed a married man and led to two editors quitting under idiotic pretenses would be a…
Gawker Drama Gets Taiwanese Animation Treatment, Complete with Gun-Toting Babies | Mediaite
Gawker’s internal drama has gotten the Taiwanese animation treatment, with some not-so-subtle commentary about the whole mess. In case you haven’t heard, Gawker posted a very questionable piece about a Conde Nast executive being in contact with a gay porn star. It was pretty strongly condemned online as having zero news value, and the post…
Gawker Outs One Cheater and the Internet Condemns Gawker—Hackers Expose 37 Million Cheaters and the Internet Condemns Cheaters – Slog – The Stranger
Late last week, Gawker posted an item about a “C-suite executive” at Condé Nast, a married father of three (a married-to-a-woman father of three [I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t have to clarify those things]), who made arrangements to spend a weekend with a gay male escort/porn star/conspiracy theorist. The porn star figured…
Tommy Craggs Is My Friend And I’ll Miss Him
I am heartbroken. I am not here to talk about the Gawker post, or its aftermath, or the decision to take the post down, and the aftermath of that—there are thousands of places to do that elsewhere—other than to lament the fact that as a result of all this calamity, Tommy Craggs is gone. This…