25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading
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.
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.
Andy Plesser | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media
Gawker's extraordinary degree of video integration into news reporting and blogging is a big deal and very exciting.
Alex Remington | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media
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.
Jaemin Kim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living
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.
New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media
Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce on Wednesday that it had acquired Consumerist.com, a popula...
Forbes | Brian Caulfield | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media
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...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
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...
Chez Pazienza | Posted 07.19.2008 | Media
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.
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media
Gawker Media boss Nick Denton is "rationalizing" his blog business by spinning off three underperforming sites: Wonkette, Gridskipper and Idolator. Th...
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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...
Huffignton Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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...
San Francisco Chronicle | Sam Zuckerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to...
Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media