Reuters: Why did Nick Denton truncate Gawker’s RSS feeds?
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Felix Salmon: "Yesterday, Gawker Media truncated its RSS feeds ... Gawker’s owner, Nick Denton ... saying that 'this was a commercial decision'"
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The Wrap: Gawker’s Denton: We Rip Off Magazines Quite Shamelessly
"Nick Denton ... argued that print magazines already have a sensibility that works online, but haven't figured out how to translate it the way sites like his have. 'At meetings at Gawker, we quite shamelessly rip off things that magazines do well...'"
New York Observer: At MPA Conference, Wonderings About the Future of Print
Nick Denton of Gawker: "The average age of our readers is 28, about thirty years younger than the average newspaper reader. It is important that the people writing and editing are of the same generation." .. and on Gawker's fact-checking: "“We don’t ... We aim to get the truth over time. The verification model is post-publication rather than pre-publication. Our readers correct us and we apologize and we change it. We don’t have time to check it all before.”
Politico.com: Save journalism? Beats us, panel says
"During the panel’s Q&A, Gawker Media’s Nick Denton sarcastically thanked the American newspaper industry for being so unaggressive, making it possible for “thugs” like him to succeed. Conversely, Denton said he’d never set up shop in England. “Every single day, those editors get up and try to kill each other,” said Denton. Not so in the U.S."
New York Times: Consumers Union to Buy a Blog From Gawker
"Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce on Wednesday that it had acquired Consumerist.com, a popular blog formerly owned by Gawker Media. ... It will become part of a new division of Consumers Union, and the current editors will remain. No plans are under way to change the coverage or to begin charging for the site. ... Unlike most magazines, Consumer Reports makes its money from subscriptions, which cost $26 for the Web site or print edition."
PC Magazines: Succeed at Blogging, the Gawker Way
"Former Valleywag editor and Gawker blogger Nick Douglas shares some tips on launching a successful blog, from choosing a platform to landing a book deal."
Radar Online Rate Cuts At Gawker Media
"[F]or the second and now ... third quarters of 2008, the company has reduced the rate of pay per pageview."
Observer: The Brit dishing the dirt on America
"When it comes to what succeeds on the web it's exactly what British newspapers have been doing well for years.' It is, [Nick Denton] says, why Gawker and its brethren would never have succeeded here. Our print media is already bitchy, sharp and stroppy.
Gawker: USA! USA! USA!: How America Saved Prince Harry’s Life
"the British press were given special access to the prince in return for the silence. But they probably would have remained silent anyway. ... An extraordinary display of acting like pussies ..."
Completetosh.com: Valleywag finds its voice
"Nick Denton’s Silicon Valley blog, Valleywag, is flying at the moment, finding its voice and building a reputation in tenacious all-sides-covered reporting on Yahoo/Microsoft. Its stats, above, show the strong growth you’d expect of a rising star."
Gawker: Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress
"Gawker is now hosting a copy of the video; it's newsworthy; and we will not be removing it."
Gawker: Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress
"Gawker is now hosting a copy of the video; it's newsworthy; and we will not be removing it."
MiamiHerald.com: Journalism becoming a consumer product
Edward Wasserman: "The problem with online Popularity Pay is it that it mistakes journalism for a consumer product, and conflates value with sales volume. Journalists don't peddle goods, they offer a professional service, a relationship."
San Francisco Chronicle: Yes, some blogs are profitable – very profitable
Techcrunch 'brings in $240,000 per month in advertising — but Nick Denton says blog publishing companies are "still minuscule by the standards of traditional media. And none have weathered a downturn."