Top 50 Gawker Media passwordsAmerican hackers have exposed the passwords and email addresses of more than one million users of the tech-savvy Gawker Media network. The Wall Street Journal has compiled the top 50 passwords, which include no-nos such as “password” and “123456.”
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Blog bullies: Gawker picks fights with the big boys
Blogging can be big business and Gawker Media is now such a powerful media organisation that it’s not afraid to publicly slaughter companies like American Apparel and Apple.
How the leaked iPhone cost Gizmodo $20,000
Gizmodo’s big iPhone 4 scoop may have hit all the headlines, but since all the advertising was presold, it’s actually cost the site significant money in legal fees and bandwidth. That’s OK, though: Gizmodo just wants the traffic.
Police sieze Gizmodo‘s computers over leaked iPhone
Tech website Gizmodo scored a huge scoop by getting its hands on Apple’s next iPhone, but now things have gotten nasty: police have raided the editor’s house, seizing his computers.
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Gawker media explains how to make money online
Village Voice has the latest staff memo from Gawker Media chief Nick Denton, advising his underlings on how to write for the web. It’s fascinating reading from someone who actually has this whole internet thing figured out.
A blog war brewing between TMZ and Gawker
Celebrity gossip site TMZ is muscling in on the territory of Gawker’s sports gossip site Deadspin with the launch of TMZSports.com. Gawker’s response? To offer more cash for sports industry scuttlebutt. Game on.
2000s: the decade of Gawker 
Why I quit my job as a national newspaper editor to be a blogger
Why would any self-respecting journo leave their job as an editor at one of the US’s largest national newspapers, the LA Times to work for media gossip site Gawker? To be part of the nation’s “cultural conversation”.
The evil genius of Gawker‘s Nick Denton
The latest move of Gawker Media blog empire monarch Nick Denton is to let readers post videos and pictures and tag their own comments, effectively turning the site into an anarchic version of Facebook.
Gawker translate censored story into Russian
Outraged at revelations that GQ buried a story linking Vladimir Putin to a series of 1999 bombings to keep it out of Russia, Gawker has rallied its readership to translate the article into Russian and spread it online.
Did Gawker prompt a State Department investigation?
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has ordered an investigation into allegations that private security contractors guarding the US embassy in Kabul are having wild, drunken parties involving prostitutes, violence and hazing. Can snarky media gossip site Gawker take credit?
How Gawker stole my story, killed journalism
Washington Post journo Ian Shapira was delighted to see a story he’d penned featured on hip media gossip site Gawker… until he realised they’d just “cherry picked” his hard work. Sing along if you know the words: “the internet is killing journalism…”
Gawker Media empire a “lean, mean money-making machine”
Nick Denton, the king of the Gawker Media empire (responsible for sites like Gawker, Gizmodo and LifeHacker) says business is booming, despite the slim-picking elsewhere in the media, with 45% revenue growth in the first quarter.
