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Gawker Hacked

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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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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Steve Jobs at 'D': When You're an App, You're an App All the Way

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Apple, D Conference, Facebook, Nick Denton, Technology News

If Apple's made the right bet, the desktop computer I've been tethered to for the last 25 years may go the way of the typewriter. Bill Gates? Suddenly he seems like an iconic figure from the distant past, the Edison of computing.

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From Pulitzer to Murdoch - The Newspaper Guys and Beyond

Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paywalls, News Corp, Newser, Joseph Pulitzer, Nick Denton, Gawker New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Michael Wolff, Media Moguls, New York Post, Gawker, Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, News Corporation, James Murdoch, Newspapers, Media News

The age of "the newspaper guys" might be ending, but the media moguls will live on.

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25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Eat the (New) Press: Breakfast at Balthazar's

Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gawker, Nick Denton, Rachel Sklar, Huffington Post, Betsy Morgan, Thewrap, Balthazar, Media News

It was 9:30, and the vibe was laid-back-about-to-inherit-the-power-from-those-big-money media-moguls-uptown-we-can-wait-a-month.

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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

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

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Gawker Folds Defamer, Rolls It Into Flagship Site

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's what should be the last step in Nick Denton's slimdown of his Gawker Media empire: The blog network is taking its LA-based Defamer site and rol...

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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

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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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Cody Willard: "I Don't Have Any Idea What I'm Doing"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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ETP caught up with affable Fox Business "Happy Hour" host Cody Willard last night at the Financial Times' 5th annual "Meet the FT" party at the Top of...

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Nick Denton, Gawker Media, Ditch Wonkette

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 Boss Denton Fascinated By Sex Life Of Former Editor

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am not sure exactly what the significance of Nick Denton's latest epic blog post about former editor Emily Gould is except to prove that he's maybe ...

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Michael Arrington: Nick Denton Is "Amoral"

Portfolio.com | Lloyd Grove | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nobody is more obsessed with the doings of Silicon Valley than Michael Arrington, whose 2½-year-old website, TechCrunch.com, has become an internatio...

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Gawker Loses Another As Denton Fires Reporter

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Nick Denton: Gawker Commenters Are My Interns

Gothamist | Posted 05.25.2011

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Attention Gawker commenters: Nick Denton needs you to pick up his dry cleaning. Though it sounds too good to be true, it seems that eager young Gawker...

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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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NYT Wonders: Has Gawker Jumped The Snark?

New York Times | Allen Salkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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"THE ideal Gawker item," Nick Denton, the owner of Gawker Media, wrote in an instant message last month to a prospective hire, "is something triggered...

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Gawker Writer Quits After First Day Of Work

NYMag.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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All is not well in the house of Denton. We hear that just one day after media reporter Richard Morgan began at Gawker.com, he's already quit. Just yes...

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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

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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

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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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Curbed Gets $1.5M From Denton, Gawker Among Others

New York Times | Dan Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Denton, Blogs, Gawker, Funding, Curbed, Media News

The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors. Curbed.com, a popular...

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Five Years In, Gawker Still Meting Out A "Manhattan Version Of Social Justice"

New York | Vanessa Grigoriadis | Posted 05.25.2011

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At the risk of sounding like a wounded old-media journalist, let me share a story about my experience with the media-gossip blog Gawker.com, which I, ...

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Blog-Based Media Poised To Explode

San Francisco Chronicle | Sam Zuckerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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