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25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media


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.

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

Sharon Waxman | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media


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.

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


Andy Plesser

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

Gawker Folds Defamer, Rolls It Into Flagship Site

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...

Valleywag Folded Into Gawker

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...

Gawker Lays Off 19 Editorial Workers

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...

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

Chez Pazienza | Posted 07.19.2008 | Media


Chez Pazienza

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.

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

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...

Nick Denton, Gawker Media, Ditch Wonkette

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...

Gawker Boss Denton Fascinated By Sex Life Of Former Editor

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 ...

Michael Arrington: Nick Denton Is "Amoral"

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...

Gawker Loses Another As Denton Fires Reporter

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...

Nick Denton: Gawker Commenters Are My Interns

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...

Another Gawker Media Staff Shake-Up: Wonkette Editor Fired

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...

NYT Wonders: Has Gawker Jumped The Snark?

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...

Gawker Writer Quits After First Day Of Work

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...

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

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...

Denton Hires Himself To Steer Gawker Flagship

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...

Curbed Gets $1.5M From Denton, Gawker Among Others

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...

Blog-Based Media Poised To Explode

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...

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

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, ...