Gawker: Gawker to sell three blogs from its network
Gawker Media is selling three of of its blogs – Idolator, Gridskipper, and Wonkette. Music blog Idolator will be sold to Buzznet network of sites. Urban travel blog Gridskipper is to be sold to Curbed,...
View ArticleNYTimes.com: Life after ‘snarky’– the future for the gossip site writers
Defamer is being absorbed into Gawker, but what’s happenning to its writers? The NYTimes takes a quick look at the reopening MovieLine website, the new home of Defamer’s editors and writers. “Whenever...
View ArticleWhy Nick Denton wouldn’t set up shop in UK
From Politico: a report on a panel at the Institute’s Ideas Festival in Colarado, asking ‘What’s the News Worth to You?’ For us Brits, this is the interesting part: “During the panel’s Q&A, Gawker...
View ArticleNieman Journalism Lab: Gawker stirs up online commenting with new #tips tags
Gawker is encourage commenters and readers of its site to share news, links and tips using a new tagging system. Using a text form on the site, tagging a message with #tips for example will send it to...
View ArticleNieman Journalism Lab: Gawker’s new traffic metric measures ‘reader affection’
While others pour over pageviews and underscore uniques, Gawker Media has been quietly working on a new metric, one designed to measure so-called “reader affection”. This new metric is called “branded...
View ArticleNieman Journalism Lab: Barriers to entry can improve quality and quantity of...
In 2009, blog network Gawker Media introduced a new, stricter commenting system in an attempt to free the site from certain readers who were dominating comment threads. Nieman Journalism Lab has the...
View ArticleCNET News: Journalist shield law may not prevent iPhone prototype investigation
Over in the US the iPhone prototype drama continues, as Gawker Media challenges the legality of the search warrant served on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, last Friday. Gawker’s Gizmodo site had received...
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