Nick Denton asks Gawker Editor To Step Down, Purchases Cityfile @4:04 PM
Nick Denton has de facto fired Gawker editor Gabriel Snyder; and announced the purchase of Cityfile. On Friday, Snyder announced Gawker's record traffic. Remy Stern is now the editor of Gawker. (Stern, a founder of Cityfile, has desired the top Gawker job since at least 2004.) Two memos circulated in-house, dated one minute apart. READ MORE 76
Arthur Sulzberger: "Why do readers continue to embrace print?" @10:38 AM
The latest in-house memo from Times honchos Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Janet Robinson is just out. In it, they explain that their circulation revenue has increased—no wait, they carefully say that circulation revenues "make up a greater percentage" of their income than it has historically. This is, how you say, a way of saying that advertising is way down, perhaps! Anyway, read on, if you're interested in the future of the Times. READ MORE 4
"ANDY WARD I LOVE YOU" @4:00 PM
The bar has been set ever-higher in the advanced bracket competition of the "Someone quit" memo. (Not so many of those these days, right?) This outpouring from GQ editor Jim Nelson, on the departure of his editor Andy Ward, is truly something to see, including as it does: "WE'RE NOT KIDDING, WE ARE GRATEFUL, WE ARE SAD." 2
Arthur Sulzberger Goes Faux-Transparent @8:10 AM
The publisher and CEO of the New York Times have followed in the path of the rest of the TMZ-laden world and taken it upon themselves to Set The Record Straight about things at their company in a company-wide email. Or, you know, one could say: the top honchos at the New York Times issued a company-wide press release this morning! It begins: "The month of May came and went and, contrary to the prediction of one writer, we did not stop printing The New York Times." Ha, they mean Michael Hirschorn's silly/not silly piece, and now his head is going to be swollen. Also? They are all LA LA LA "DIFFICULT TIMES" LA LA. So that means they do not get it. Oh and this memo is basically all about how they screwed their staff and the unions and fired people oops, sorry everyone! READ MORE 7
