Valleywag (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I must've inadvertently done a rain dance to the gossip gods yesterday, because here at Gawker Weekend HQ, Christmas is here. Not often do I get too many O RLY?! moments like this. Everyone, meet my...
Inc.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Tour a Start-up's Office: The Gawker edition. Gawker Media, the parent company behind blogs like Valleywag and io9, has been experiencing a growth spurt of 40 percent year-over-year. Now Silicon Alley Insider takes us inside CEO Nick Denton's "steampunk" headquarters in downtown New York as part of its new tour a startup photo feature. What should you expect from inside the belly of the...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
We stopped by Gawker Media's New York headquarters earlier this week and asked owner Nick Denton how's business. He told us: Gawker reached 394 million pageviews in October. Revenues were growing at a 40% y/y pace earlier this year, but Nick Denton says, "I don't think we'll sustain quite the same rate of growth that we had in first half." We also brought our camera along for the visit....
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Gawker Media, one of the most powerful and popular blogging networks in existence, has reported a total of 394 million pageviews in October across their network. Nick Denton released an image, see below, detailing the total pageviews across the Gawker Media network websites. Gizmodo won, coming in with a stunning 126 million page views in October. The [...]
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
You know times are on the up when Nick Denton starts launching new blogs instead of flogging them off or shuttering them, and today Gawker Media turned the tide of the last 18 months with a new blog Gawker.TV. Gawker TV offers a range of videos from the Gawker network, as well as content from around [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Today's launch of Gawker.TV is the product of Richard Blakeley 's three years as Nick Denton 's video editor. Now the This Is Why You're Fat co-author is manning his own satellite site , which will be posting videos throughout the day, with the help of the 16 or so interns currently working under Blakeley. The fact that so much (unpaid) manpower is going into this spin-off site isn't exactly a surprise....
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
There's a new hot ticket in town for those who work in New York new media circles: An invitation to one of Strauss Zelnick's rooftop salons. The Zelnick Media founder holds these gatherings every few months on the awesome roof deck of his building in midtown. We had dinner with the kids last night, so we missed it, but according to Gawker Media founder Nick Denton, everyone who is anyone was there:...
Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
youngmanhattanite : Nick Denton : Alex, you know how I love your rants — even when I disagree with the conclusion. Many of your individual points are fair. And this one in particular. “For all the talk of Bloomberg the power-player who at least gets things done without worrying about the unions and special interests, he’s been unable to win any political battle with anyone he couldn’t...
You Been Blinded (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Deadspin editor A.J. Daulerio posted information he received about the sexual exploits of some ESPN employees to the dismay of the sports blogosphere. It seems the outings weren’t a knee-jerk reaction to being lied to about a story by ESPN pr. Nope. Daulerio followed orders from the man above. Here are four bullet points if you [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another...
SPORTSbyBROOKS (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Want to know why A.J. Daulerio exposed the personal lives of two inconsequential ESPN staffers this week? Here’s why. Snippet: At some media organizations you might get rapped for running a premature story. At Gawker Media, you’ll lose way more points for being scooped on a story you had in your hands. Nick Nick is Nick Denton, head of [...]
The Hardball Times (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Like a lot of you, I've been watching the Steve Phillips business from afar. Between the almost complete lack of any real baseball angle whatsoever, and the fact that, unlike a lot of scandalous stories, this one has an innocent wife and children being dragged through it all, I really don't see the percentage in writing about it. I'll gawk like the rest of you, but it doesn't exactly scream out for...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released a chart today showcasing how U.S. wages dropped during the first quarter of 2009. While that's what most of the public expected, what's amazing is how much New York City (specifically, Manhattan) wages have dropped in that same time period. No doubt, exposure to some the most sensitive and high-paying areas areas of the economy (finance, law, media) is...
ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Nick Denton just revealed that he's going to allow people to tag their comments on his Gawker websites, so related comments will be sifted and sorted together.
Nieman Journalism Lab (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Why Le Monde built a separate brand for reader-generated journalism: “We needed to be free to experiment” http://tr.im/CkKR » Gorgeous @blprnt visualization of when people say “Good morning” on Twitter (for us, around 9 a.m. EST) http://tr.im/CjD9 » Nick Denton on paying for the Balloon Boy story: “A story is a story. We’re not squeamish about the [...]...
MediaMemo (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Another scandal, another Gawker story, and another payday for the person who sold Gawker the news. No big deal, says Nick Denton, the blog impresario: We'll keep doing it.
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