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.
Sharon Waxman | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media
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.
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.
AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media
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...
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.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
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...
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...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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 ...
Portfolio.com | Lloyd Grove | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Nobody is more obsessed with the doings of Silicon Valley than Michael Arrington, whose 2½-year-old website, TechCrunch.com, has become an internatio...
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...
Gothamist | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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...
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...
New York Times | Allen Salkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
"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...
NYMag.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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...
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...
New York Times | Dan Mitchell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors. Curbed.com, a popular...
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...
New York | Vanessa Grigoriadis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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, ...
Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media