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25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media

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
Rachel Sklar

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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Surprising Reaction to Times Layoffs: 32% Of Commenters Say 'We'll Pay!'

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Richard Perez-Pena, Layoffs, State of Journalism, Bill Keller, Gawker, Drudge, New York Times, Media Decoder, Media News
Glynnis MacNicol

Yesterday afternoon the New York Times announced it would be cutting 100 newsroom jobs, about 8% total, by the end of the year. To do so the paper wo...

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This Week in the Classroom: A Throwdown for Public Schools ... That Feeds Your Social Media Obsession

Reyna Booth | Posted 09.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Public Schools, donorschoose.org, Sbnation, Philanthropy, Social Media, Craig Newmark, Education, Social Media Challenge, Blogher, Apartment Therapy, Gawker, Serious Eats, Fred Wilson, Public Schools Money, Fundraiser, Technology News
Reyna Booth

Starting October 1st, DonorsChoose.org is kicking off its Social Media Challenge, a friendly competition among online media personalities to help thousands of public school students.

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Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart Sex Tape Lawsuit: Gawker Sued Over Video

People | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Gawker, Eric Dane Rebecca Gayheart, Rebecca Gayheart, Sex Tape, Eric Dane Sex Tape, Eric Dane, Gawker Sued, Media News

Eric Dane and wife Rebecca Gayheart are suing the pants off the parent company of a blog that posted their nude tape last month. The couple, who appe...

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Richard Blakeley, Gawker Editor, Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges

Huffington Post | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Gawker, Richard Blakeley, Richard Blakeley Arrested, Media News

Gawker video editor Richard Blakeley was arrested earlier this month on charges of domestic violence. Blakeley, who co-authored a book based on the...

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Homosexuality as a Weapon of Torture

Karen Ocamb | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Youth Radio, Aaron Belkin, Project on Government Oversight, Gays in the Military, Americablog, Don't Tell, Gawker, John Aravosis, Don't Ask, Amorgroup, Politics News
Karen Ocamb

Policy makers must understand that if their job is to ultimately protect the citizenry, they are complicit in torture if they continue to dismiss abuse of power as "boys will be boys" or bullying or "hazing" as if everyone is just having some good clean fun.

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Bombing Russia and Media Censorship

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Censorship, Fsb, Excellent Reporting, Alex Litvinenko, Gq, Gawker, Russia, Beslan Massacre, Vladamir Putin, Anna Politkovskaya, Svr, Media News
Larisa Alexandrovna

Though em>GQ spiked their article on allegations that the Russian FSB were behind the 1999 false-flag bombings in Russia, Gawker helped translate it into Russian, a serious first for news.

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Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers: Public Mockery on Aisle 9

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Gawker, People of Walmart, Cruelty, Freak Show, Internet Bullying, Humor, Wal-Mart, People of Wal-Mart, People of Wal Mart, Media News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Where do you draw the line between getting a harmless chuckle out of the strangeness of everyday life and cruelly poking fun of people who are, after all, just trying to buy some groceries?

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What Makes Julie (and Julia) Great

Carolynn Carreño | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Julie and Julia, Food Bloggers, Gawker, Julia Powell, Entertainment News
Carolynn Carreño

Unlike today's food bloggers, Julia Powell was writing about something interesting -- life.

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Is it Time to Invent a New Masculinity?

Sean McManus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Jesse Eisenberg, Hugh Dancy, John Krasinski, Japanese Herbivores, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Cera, Bonobos, Gawker, Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, Masculinity, The Year of Awkward Young Men, Femininity, Working-Class Masculinity, Gender Roles, Living News
Sean McManus

The new economy is a tough place for these old-fashioned guys. That's why it's important that we work together to create a new kind of masculinity, not defined by "infants in Morissey onesies."

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Tweet Stuff

Alexis Maybank | Posted 09.05.2009 | Style

Read More: Sample-Sales, gilt.com, Twitter, Fashion, Gilt Groupe, Dalai Lama, Gawker, Marc Jacobs, Trends, Wall Street Journal, Tweets, Fashion Trends, Style-Trends, Tweeting, Financial TImes, Style News
Alexis Maybank

So as a modern executive, would I exist without Twitter? Twitter makes me feel more alive to the possibilities of work and life.

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Gawker's Big Media Heist

Bart Motes | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Ian-Shapira-Gawker, Gawker, Ian Shapira, Ian Shapira Gawker, Washington Post, Media News
Bart Motes

Did Gawker writer Hamilton Nolan rip off Ian Shapira? Did he rip off the Washington Post? I'd say Shapira, who was pleased, and his editor, who was pissed, were both right.

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Gawking at the Washington Post

Hugh McGuire | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Britannica, Wikipedia, Blogs, Newspapers, Content, Gawker, Ian Shapira, Bloggers, Anne Loehr, Hamilton Nolan, Death of Newspapers, Media, Washington-Post, News, Blogging, Media News
Hugh McGuire

The problem with Gawker blogging about a Washington Post story isn't bloggers "stealing" stories. The problem is measuring the value of content.

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Washington Post Writer: Gawker Ripped Off My Newspaper Story

Washington Post | Ian Shapira | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Gawker, Washington Post, Washington Post Gawker, Ian Shapira, Ian Shapira Gawker, Media News

Gawker's story featured several quotations from the coach and a client, and neatly distilled Loehr's biography -- information entirely plucked from my...

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Dennis Kneale Rants Against "Dickweed" Blogger Critics Again: "I'm Not Sorry At All, I Meant Every Word" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Annuity Iq, Gawker, Cnbc, Dennis Kneale, Zero Hedge, Dealbreaker, Dennis Kneale Cnbc, Dennis Kneale Video, Dennis Kneale Bloggers Video, Media News

CNBC host Dennis Kneale is back for more, escalating a feud he began with the blogosphere yesterday with another long-winded rant. Kneale said he was ...

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Can Newsweek's Dan Lyons Cover Apple, Now? (Video)

Andy Plesser | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Jobs, Ryan Tate, Dan Lyons, Apple, Fake Steve Jobs, Gawker, Media News
Andy Plesser

We wonder why Dan Lyons, author of the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, the clever, stinging, first-person send-up of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, has restarted his blog. Particularly now that his identity is known and he is a staffer at Newsweek?

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

Sharon Waxman | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media

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

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 07.07.2009 | Media

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

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

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New Media Moguls: Trust and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Ari Melber | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Twitter Media, Twitter Politics, Twitter, Gawker, Bloggers, Craigslist, Media News
Ari Melber

Nick Denton made Twitter sound like a competitive edge, noting that smart young journalists on his staff have swapped RSS feeds for Twitter to see stories and trends moving in real time.

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What Will We Do If the New York Times Tanks

James Heffernan | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Gawker, New York Times, David Geffen, Carlos Slim, Fortune, New York Post, Journalism, Media News
James Heffernan

The short answer is what I'm doing right now, which is Googling my way to other sources on a story the Times itself resolutely refuses to tell.

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

Alex Remington | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media

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

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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Twitter...Life in 140 Characters or Less

Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Blackberry, Tweetie, Puff Daddy, Twitter, Britney Spears, iPhone Applications, Gawker, Demi Moore Twitter, MC Hammer, Twitterific, Media, Twitterberry, Twitterati, Tweets, Danyel Smith, Followers, Iphone, Mainstream Media, Twittering, Cnn, Omarosa, Reuters, New York Times, Financial TImes, Farai Chideya, Drudge Report, Vibe Magazine, Ashton Kutcher, Toure, Media News
Brooke-Sidney Gavins

And as interesting (or not) as this whole conversation about what Twitter is, the better question to ask is why are people using it? Why has Twitter caught on?

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Gawker Folds Defamer, Rolls It Into Flagship Site

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media

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

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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Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes

Jaemin Kim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

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, Living News
Jaemin Kim

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 01.30.2009 | Media

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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