Posts tagged as Nick Denton
Sarah Palin and Gawker to Debate Freedom and the Constitution
So, Gawker got sued again—this time by HarperCollins, for publishing excerpts from “America By Heart,” Sarah Palin’s latest contribution to the annals of American thought. The book doesn’t come out until tomorrow, but Gawker posted segments of it last week, mostly in order to make fun of them. Some people got upset! On Saturday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against Gawker. So the page with the excerpts from the book is down. READ MORE
No One Really Knows Why Local Man Does Strange Thing: The Nick Denton Story
There are many ways to read today's New Yorker profile of Nick Denton, a New York City-based man who runs a network of popular websites. I think the best way I've found to read it so far is this one: print it out, or to otherwise somehow obtain a printed copy of the piece, and then highlight (perhaps in yellow?) all the quotes by Denton himself. As with all previous Denton profiles-and it's not a fault of these profiles or the writers, I don't think!-you will come searching for a "why" and you may again come away frustrated on a quick read. And yet still, when this one is given a sort of slow, math-problem like reading, you feel as if there's an answer just forming in your peripheral vision. You can sort of see this shiny correct solution hovering there for a second.
Gawker Media Now Bigger Than All Newspapers Online -- Except One
The latest traffic memo arrives from Gawker Media honcho Nick Denton: in it, Comscore shows that his network of sites is bigger than any newspaper online but the New York Times. That being said? "The newspapers are now the least of our competition. The inflated expectations of investors and executives may one day explode the Huffington Post. And Yahoo and AOL are in long-term decline. But they are all increasingly in our business." READ MORE
Nick Denton: On the Web, Female Trumps Male, Youth Trumps Age
Another terrific monthly wrap-up email from Gawker Media honcho Nick Denton to his staff! One item that will surprise you: "There's too much news on the web; and way too little explanation." Intrigued? Want to... win the mornings? Read on! READ MORE
Gawker Kingpin Explains Gothamist Sale
Gawker Media honcho Nick Denton offers a perspective on the announcement yesterday of the sale of Gothamist to Rainbow Media, which is owned by Cablevision. "It's subject to long-term capital gains — but also to New York State tax. So that's at least a quarter off. Let's say Jake and Jen end up with $1.5m each. That sounds like a lot; but they've been at the job seven years. And my understanding is that the contract would require them to stick around for another three, making a decade in total. So that works out as about $150,000 per year — plus any compensation under the employment agreement they get from Cablevision." He adds: "for several years they took very little out of Gothamist. Jen was working for Olive Garden and Jake did web consulting on the side."
Gawker Media Goes Legit
Exciting news over at the world's last profitable (online) magazine company, Gawker Media! We're hearing that the company's widespread use of full-time yet non-employee contractors is finally being ended. Workers at the company's various blogs will have the choice between going full-time, as actual employees, or staying as contract workers, but only working four days a week. This is awesome news for those among us who were afraid that in the hideous future, no one would ever find employee status anywhere again. On a day-to-day level, this is less awesome for Gawker Media employees, who have to choose between being squeezed into the office (where, exactly?) for every workday or retaining their freedom to take on additional work elsewhere. Still, we're sure there are various benefits for the company in this, and for the employees as well. (And once they're employees, they can more easily unionize. Ha ha, JUST JOSHING.)
Nick Denton: "A few cases recently where we've thought *way* too much before publishing."
Today is that awesome panel at this magazine media thingy, at which Awl pals Nick Denton and Simon Dumenco will tell you what to do with your magazine. It is a great time to do this for two reasons: one of which is that, overnight, Gawker just digested and extruded Twitter in some weird hashtaggy way. And also, this Gawker memo from the other day! Subject line: "We're not running a newspaper."
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Gutter Press Further Degrades Lofty Profession Of Photojournalism
A British paparazzo snapped this photo of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and NBC's Andrea Mitchell while they were enjoying some private time at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival in Colorado. Will no one protect our celebrities from the brutal intrusion of these camera-wielding thugs?
Resident Alien, by Denton Crisp
Gawker Media Overlord Nick Denton [see, context!] reminisces about his early days in New York: READ MORE
