Gawking at his blog empireA New Yorker profile on Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media: think Gizmodo, Gawker and Jezebel. Is Denton the ruthless evil wizard of the blog world, or just a very clever businessman?
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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.
Should Gizmodo have paid for the leaked iPhone?
Gizmodo got a major scoop with the leaking of the new iPhone. Foster Kamer talks to Gawker Media head honcho Nick Denton about Steve Jobs’ angry phone call, the ethics of publishing the scoop and whether they’re on Apple’s black list now.
leaked 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.
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 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.
Gawker bring back chequebook journalism
Gawker Media — the stable housing Defamer, Lifehacker, Gizmodo et al — will once again offer payment to tipsters based on the amount of pageviews generated by posts based on their tips.
Gawker founder: “We may inadvertently commit journalism”
Try as he might, Gawker founder Nick Denton’s attempts to run a snarky media gossip site often results in real journalism.
Gawker chief rejects old media hacks
Yes there’s a lot of experienced print journos desperate for work at the moment, but the head of the Gawker blog empire, Nick Denton, says he doesn’t want them. “They don’t adjust well to working online.” Ouch.
