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Two Romney Problems Clash: Elitism Versus Tin Ear Syndrome

Martin Long | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Joe Muto, Fox News Mole, Mitt Romney, Gawker, Presidential Election, Fox News, Obama, Sean Hannity, General Election, Romney, Politics News

If Mitt Romney could only learn to show a little bit of the normal humanness that he lets out of the lock-box for his Hannity banter, perhaps he could actually communicate with people.

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White Supremacist Allegedly Hacks Trayvon's Email And Facebook

HuffingtonPost.com | Gene Demby | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: 4chan, Trayvon Martin White Supremacist, Gawker, Trayvon Martin, Trayvon Martin Hacked, Trayvon-Martin-Social-Media, Klankannon, Black Voices News

A white supremacist hacker claims to have broken into Trayvon Martin's email and social networking accounts and posted his private messages online. ...

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Student Paper Yanks Controversial Trayvon Martin Cartoon

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Trayvon Martin Case, George Zimmerman, Gawker, Editorial Cartoons, Trayvon Martin, University of Texas, Media Coverage, Trayvon Martin Unarmed, Texas College Students, Controversial Cartoon, Trayvon Martin Tragedy, Racist Cartoon, The Daily Texan, Racism, Stephanie Eisner, College News

The Daily Texan, a student newspaper at the University of Texas in Austin, pulled a controversial cartoon about the media coverage of the Trayvon Mart...

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One Texas Reporter Is Finding An Exotic Way To Make An Extra Buck

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Linkedin, Twitter, Nyu, Exotic Dancing, Stripping, Gawker, Jeremy Piven, The Houston Press, Stripper, The Angry Stripper, Video, Houston Chronicle, Slidepollajax, University of Houston, Business News

It seems that one Texas-based reporter wasn't getting enough excitement from her day job. Sarah Tressler, who covers society events for the Housto...

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YouTube’s ‘Reply Girls’: Empowering or Demeaning?

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Max Read, Video Spam, Video, Poll, Gawker, Reply Girls, Alejandra Gaitan, Youtube, Youtube Algorithm, Youtube Reply Girls, Youtube Spam, Making Money on Youtube, Women News

You may not recognize Alejandra Gaitan’s face, but her voice and especially a certain area of her body have won her millions of views (and a number ...

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To Recap or Not to Recap, That Is the Question

Kris LoPresto | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Grantland, Gawker, The Sopranos, avclub.com, The X Factor, Family Guy, The Office, How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, Lost, Jersey Shore, NYMag.Com, The Larry Sanders Show, Up All Night, Gossip Girl, American Idol, TV News

Lost was a show that required a weekly recap to go over all the hints and clues. Flashforward six years later to the present day and the Internet has a recap for nearly every single show on TV. How did this happen?

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More Schwarzenegger Drama: A Defamation Lawsuit

Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Gawker, Tanner Tousignant, Tammy Tousignant, Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Defamation, Lawsuit, Celebrity News

By now, news of ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's extramarital affair with a member of his household staff is as old as "hasta la vista."...

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New York Times -- The Saga Continues

Geri Spieler | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Sundance Film Festival, Politico, Gawker, Npr, Rossi, Journalism, David Carr, James-Oshea, Web 2.0, Internet, Page One, David Folkenflik, New York Times, Huffington Post, Wikkileaks, Technology, Books News

Can print journalists be objective about the future of news? Page One: Inside the New York Times and the Future of Journalism attempts to answer this question in 17 essays and interviews with respected and well-known writers.

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Former Book Publishing Employee To Launch Own Book-Selling Site

The New York Observer | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Emily Gould, Memoirs, Gawker, Book Selling Website, New York Times Magazine, And the Heart Says Whatever, Poetry Foundation, Emily Books, Ebooks, Eileen Myles, Books News

The Transom recently learned that Emily Gould—former employee of publishing house Hyperion, blogger at Gawker, memoirist, and New York Times Magazin...

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Chet Haze, Tom Hanks' Rapper Son "Not Particularly Off The Hook" Live

Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Tom Hanks, Chet Haze, Larry Crowne, Gawker, Rita Wilson, Chicago, Enclave Nightclub, Children of Hollywood a-Listers, Chicago Nightlife, Rap Music, Video, Chicago News

Known best for his Northwestern University-inspired rendition of a Wiz Khalifa song, Chet Haze, a 20-year-old theater major and son of Hollywood A-Lis...

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Gawker Media's Unconventional Online Video Strategy: Not Sharing

Andy Plesser | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Gawker, Beet.TV, Rob Sandie, Viddler, Technology News

Unlike the vast majority of online video news sites which seek broad sharing and distribution of clips, the videos on the Gawker Network do not provide embed codes or other standard sharing tools.

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So This Is Fashion, and Other Things

Alex Geana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Naeem Khan, Julia Alarcon, Img, Cfda, Brandon Sun, Academy of Art University, Lincoln Center, Gawker, Bibhu Mohapatra, Max Azria, Vivienne Tam, Libertine, Altuzarra, Milk & Mac, u.s. Fashion, China Fashion, Fashion, Fashion Week, Style News

Fashion is a reflection of our times. It's a consumer-driven art -- when individuals can feel comfortable and not be worried about a purchase, they can take fashionable risks.

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Lessons Learned From The Worst Breakups Ever

Christina Vuleta | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: 20-Somethings, Relationships, 40-Somethings, Dating, Gawker, Break Ups, Break Up, Relationship Advice, Love, Valentine's Day, Breakup, 40-Something Women, 20-Something Women, Breaking Up, Breakups, Healthy Living News

I thought I'd see how the Gawker breakup anecdotes stacked up against 40:20 Vision hindsight -- what 40-something women would tell 20-something women based on what they know now.

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Hey Washington Post: Mean Girls Have Nothing to Do With Age

Meredith Fineman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mean Girls, Perez Hilton, Theffjd, Gawker, Wapo, Fifty First (J)Dates, Washington Post, Cattiness, Ffjd, Cliques, Female Relationships, Mean, Healthy Living News

Women putting down other women doesn't stop after high school. We're smarter, more developed, and more capable of bringing each other down verbally and psychologically.

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The Online Erogenous Zone

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Euro RSCG Worldwide, Gawker, match.com, Woody Allen, Facebook, Online Romance, Social Media, Internet, Romance, Sex, Prosumer, Craigslist, Valentine's Day, Online Dating, Cheating, Consumers, Technology, Christopher Lee, Technology News

This is the fourth in a series of four. See Euro RSCG Worldwide PR's latest white paper, "Love (and Sex) in the Age of Social Media," for more analysi...

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Irony: Chris Lee Warned About 'Dangers Of The Internet' In Op-Ed (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Lee Resigns, Congressman Christopher Lee, Christopher Lee Resigns, New York Congressman Christopher Lee, Gawker, Christopher Lee, Ny News, Craigslist, Video, New York News

New York Representative Christopher Lee resigned on Wednesday three hours after shirtless photos of him (and accompanying flirty emails) surfaced on t...

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Columbia Newspaper Publishes Fake Article

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Thurman, Morningside Post, Morningside Post Mugging Story Joke, Morningside Post Joke, New York City, Columbia University, The Northeast, Morningside Post Satire, Morningside Post Spoof, Morningside Post Lateness Policy Joke, Gawker, University News, Columbia University News, College News

A satirical story in a Columbia University newspaper fooled readers and media outlets on Monday, leading some -- most notably, Gawker -- to take it at...

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Palin's Publisher Sues Gawker Over Leaked Book Excerpts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Palin Gawker, America by Heart, Gawker, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin New Book, Palin Sues Gawker, Sarah Palin Book, Books News

NEW YORK — The publisher of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media on Friday for leaking pages of "America By Heart...

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Open Letter to Gawker Hackers

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebay, Passwords, Paypal, Gawker, Julian Assange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Wikileaks, Hackers, Amazon, Comedy News

Okay, hawkers, you've made your point. I should have used different passwords for each of my accounts, but it was so much easier to remember that my ...

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Tajazzle: The Embarrassment Isn't the Acting

Meredith Fineman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jezebel, Douche, Gawker Media, Gawker, Fifty First (J)Dates, Saturday Night Live, Vagina, Tajazzle, Tajazzling, South Park, Video, Healthy Living News

So, have you seen the Tajazzle video? It's the most ridiculous infomercial known to man and womankind.

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OOPS: The 13 Most Common Gawker Passwords Exposed

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hacker, Gawker Hack, Hack, Cyberattacks, Gawker Passwords, Gawker Hacked, Gawker, Technology News

On Sunday, hackers exposed usernames and passwords stored in the Gawker Media user database. The Wall Street Journal analyzed the leaked data and pr...

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Gawker Hacked

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gizmondo, Cyberattacks, Gawker Hack, Gawker, Nick Denton, Deadspin, Gawker Hacked, Hacks, Wikileaks, Hacking, Technology News

NEW YORK — Gawker Media Inc. is urging subscribers to change their passwords because someone has managed to hack into the company's user database. ...

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Black Swan: Dangerous Perfection

Meredith Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jezebel, Movie Reviews, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Gawker, Natalie Portman Mila Kunis Kiss, Fifty First (J)Dates, Black Swan, Movies, Entertainment News

I will say that this was by far one of the darkest, scariest, and most grotesque movies I've ever seen. But for me, and for a lot of other women, what took center stage wasn't the bouts of crazy. It was Natalie Portman's body.

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Newspaper Pay Walls: A History Littered with Disaster Says HuffPo CEO

Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Gawker Media, Aol, Gawker, Business Insider, Eric Hippeau, Death of Print, Rupert Murdoch, Henry Blodget, Death of Newspapers, Media, Wsj, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newspaper Industry, Business News

ntil time passes and we can arrive at an answer, the debate will continue over whether an ad-driven business without a subscription component can create considerable value.

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Nick Denton's Five Unintended Lessons for Corporate Bloggers

Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Social Media, Gawker.com, Gawker Media, Gawker, Bloggers, Nick Denton, Marketing, Media, Social Media Marketing, Blogging, Technology News

Often forgotten in the blogosphere, corporate blogs tend to be marketing or customer care tools that are launched and managed by companies. These blogs, appropriately, exist to advance a company in accordance with its strategy and growth objectives.

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