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Getting Away With Diplomatic Murder

Peter Van Buren | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Iraq War, US Embassy Baghdad, Foia, Gawker Media, Blackwater, Nisoor Square, Baghdad, State Department, Politics News

New records released after a four year FOIA fight between the State Department and Gawker show that mercenaries, primarily from Blackwater, shot and sometimes killed a lot of Iraqis in the name of protecting America's diplomats.

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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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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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Strip-Searched: Lost iPhone Probe Shows Why Search Warrants Should Never Be Used on Journalists

Peter Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalists Shield Law, Freedom of Speech, Gizmodo, First Amendment, Gawker Media, Apple, Apple Iphone, Jobs Bill, Confidential Sources, Search-Warrants, Subpoena, Gizmodo Iphone, Media News

The threat to personal liberties posed by search warrants in the pre-digital era was trivial compared to the virtual strip-search that a warrant has become today.

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Immigration, Financial, and Climate Reform: The Rock-Paper-Scissors of Politics

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gizmodo, Immigration Reform, Senate, Megan Carpentier, Financial Reform, Wilshire and Washington, Ted Johnson, Gawker Media, Florida, Arizona Immigration Law, Charlie Crist, Climate Change Bill, Podcast, Iphone 4g, Politics News

In today's Wilshire & Washington, we are joined by our special guest host for the month of May, Megan Carpentier, who will be filling in for Maegan Ca...

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Should Apple Sue Gawker Over iPhone Leak Story?

DailyFinance | JEFF BERCOVICI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Gawker Media, Gizmodo, Apple, Gizmodo Iphone, Gizmodo Iphone Leak, Media News

I think a district attorney could make a solid criminal case that Gawker Media purchased what it knew or suspected were technically stolen goods. And ...

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Mashup a la Early 2010 Gawker TV Party in New York City

Neal Rodriguez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gawker Media, Gawker Tv, Meetup, Media News

Source: Richard Blakely - Gawker TV Source: Whitney Jefferson - Gawker TV Source: Justin Johnson Online Video Contest...

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What Women Bring to the Table -- Designers, Artists, Thinkers & Inventors to Start the Week

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women, Rotterdam, National Science Foundation, Career Award, Design, Wieki Somers, Annalee Newitz, Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte Von Der Lancken, Swedish, Netherlands, Anna Lindgren, Vision of the Future, Polish Designer, Whatwomenmake, Frog Design, Innovation, Lynn Jackson, Cindy Van Den Bremen, Dutch, James Cameron, Steve Jobs, Foam Material, Swedish Designers, Yin Ziuzhen, Gawker Media, Afsaneh Rabiei, Edyta Cieloch, Healthy Living News

Ideas and Design on my radar right now. An eclectic bunch. Cutaway vase by Polish designer Edyta Cieloch "Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei of Iran, awarded a CARE...

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25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Bloggers, Roy Sekoff, Matt Drudge, Josh Marshall, Arianna Huffington, Danny Shea, Robert Quigley, Mediaite, Ryan Tate, Hot Air, Gawker Media, Top Blogger List, Key Bloggers, Kanye West, Top Bloggers List, The Huffington Post, Need to Know Bloggers, Scott Lamb, Nick Denton, Joe Coscarelli, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Influential Bloggers, Michelle Malkin, Top 25 Bloggers, John Cook, Tom Scocca, Copyranter, The Hidden Hand, Mark Copyranter, Amanda Dobbins, AllahPundit, Rihanna, Emily Gould, 25 Most Underrated Bloggers, Abram Sauer, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, Fred Mwangaguhunga, Jack Shepherd, Best Bloggers List, Media Take Out, Top Bloggers, Gawker, Part 1, Peggy Wang, Best Bloggers, Allah Pundit, 25 Need to Know Bloggers, Buzzfeed, Media News

Remember when the web used to be about following links to someone's cool blogspot site? Now it's all about the world of ultra-ultra-niche or the secret gems that the big sites troll daily for their unique takes.

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Nick Denton: A Third of Gawker Media Posts Are Video Centric: NYT's David Carr Explains the Power of the Moving Image

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Denton, David Carr, Gawker.com, Video, Gawker Media, Gawker, Video Blogging, Media News

Gawker's extraordinary degree of video integration into news reporting and blogging is a big deal and very exciting.

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Middle-Aged Film Critic Writes a Book Railing Against Snark; Man on Internet Agrees

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Denby, Book Reviews, Snark, Gawker Media, The New Yorker, New Yorker, Gawker, Maureen Dowd, Vh1, Media News

As Denby says, snark is like a middle-school rumor: vicious, authorless, and anyone who objects gets slagged as having no sense of humor. It's good that he's publicly objecting.

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Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes

Jaemin Kim | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gawker Media, Ethnicity, Chinese, White People, Michael Phelps, Gawker.com, Videogames, Anime, Sexism, Dating, Defamer, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, African Americans, Korean, Rape, Rachel Getting Married, Gawker, Asian Americans, Washington State, Los Angeles, Sexuality, Black People, Stereotypes, Spokane, Asians, Japanese, Nerds, Hate Crimes, Violence Against Women, Prejudice, Legal, Prosecution, Justice, Bigotry, Interracial Dating, Sexual Violence, Interracial Relationships, Fetish, Sexual Assault, Laws, Asian Women, Bias Crime, Living News, Women, Asian Fetish, Caucasians, Sex Crimes, Salon.com, Media Responsibility, Media Bias, Healthy Living News

Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.

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Gawker Media Sells Consumerist.com To Consumer Union

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gawker Media, Gawker, Consumerist, Consumer Reports, Media News

Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce on Wednesday that it had acquired Consumerist.com, a popula...

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Valleywag Folded Into Gawker

Forbes | Brian Caulfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Valleywag, Valleywag Folds, Gawker Media, Owen Thomas, Gawker, Nick Denton, Media News

Face-stabbing, apparently, isn't a formula for a successful stand-alone tech news outlet in tough economic times. Owen Thomas, managing editor of Sil...

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Gawker Lays Off 19 Editorial Workers

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Denton, Gawker, Gawker Media, Gawker Layoffs, Media News

Two weeks ago, Nick Denton hosted a party on the top of his newish Gawker offices, where he told us he was "disaster planning." Here's what that looks...

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Droll Models: Is Being Drunk and "Slutty" Empowering?

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Denton, Jezebel, Tracie Egan, Gawker, Lizz Winstead, Moe Tkacik, Emily Gould, Gawker Media, Media News

There's been an awful lot of negative press aimed at the House of Gawker over the past year or so, and even the most unctuous of Nick Denton apologists would have to admit that quite a bit of it is well-deserved.

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Jezebelism

Lizz Winstead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gawker Media, Tracie Egan, Jezebel, Sex, Moe Tkacik, Video, Media News

I don't know if the Jezebel girls came to my show drunk, or just ended up drunk by the time they hit the stage, but what I do know is that the discussion that ensued was deeply disturbing to me.

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Nick Denton, Gawker Media, Ditch Wonkette

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Denton Wonkette, Nick Denton, Gawker, Gawker Media, Wonkette, Wonkette Gawker, Media News

Gawker Media boss Nick Denton is "rationalizing" his blog business by spinning off three underperforming sites: Wonkette, Gridskipper and Idolator. Th...

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Gawker Loses Another As Denton Fires Reporter

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gawker Media, Nick Denton, Gawker Firings, Gawker, Maggie Shnayerson, Maggie Shnayerson Fired, Gawker Staff, Media News

Gawker media reporter Maggie Shnayerson was laid off last night. Nick Denton, managing editor of the site and owner of parent company Gawker Media, co...

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Another Gawker Media Staff Shake-Up: Wonkette Editor Fired

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Denton, Gawker Media, Wonkette, Ken Layne, Megan Carpentier, Eat the Press, Media News

In yet another staff shake-up at Gawker media, Wonkette associate editor Megan Carpentier was let go from the popular political site on Friday. Carpen...

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New Guard At Gawker: Denton Takes The Helm (Plus New Sci-Fi Blog!)

Huffignton Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, Gawker, Nick Denton, Emily Gould, Gawker Media, Joshua Stein, Gawker Managing Editor, Eat the Press, Media News

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: On December 31, 2007, Gawker bid farewell to managing editor Choire Sicha, editor Emily Gould, and after hour...

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Denton Hires Himself To Steer Gawker Flagship

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Denton Managing Editor, Gawker, Nick Denton, Gawker Media, Gawker Managing Editor, Media News

Nick Denton, the entrepreneur who has built Gawker Media into a formidable blog brand, said two weeks ago that he wanted the new editor of his flagshi...

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Self-Important n+1 Played Absolutely No Role in Resignation of Gawker Editors

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, Gawker, N+1, Gawker Media, Emily Gould, Eat the Press, Media News

Today I received an email from someone at lit journal n+1 with a link to its just-published Gawker critique by Carla Blumenkranz. The subject line...

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Blog-Based Media Poised To Explode

San Francisco Chronicle | Sam Zuckerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogosphere, Gawker Media, Jon Callaghan, Blog-Based Media, Techcrunch, Lisa Stone, Nick Denton, Michael Arrington, Steve King, Media News

In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to...

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