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gawker media ’
Gawker Media's roll out of a new design at the beginning of February 2011 has cost the new media giant dearly, with online tracking tools showing that many of its sites have bled traffic in the past ...
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Nick Denton has finally acknowledged the backlash from Gawker's controversial site redesign, in a lengthy post that rubbed a few commenters the wrong way and didn't seem to deliver much word of actual improved functionality.
Denton's tone suggests ...
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I'm a New Yorker, and obviously, a blogger by trade. Gawker is like my New York Times.
I saw a bit of buzzing last week about Gawker and blogs dying or somesuch, but I must have tuned ...
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It seems Gawker writers may have poked the hornet's nest a few too many times this year, as a group of shadowy internet pranksters have cracked the fuck out of all of Gawker Media's web properties to ...
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Gawker Media has settled its copyright dispute with HarperCollins after the New York based gossip blog posted excerpts from Sarah Palin's autobiography.
The case headed to court last week when HarperCollins called breach of copyright over the ...
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Blog network Gawker Media is set to abandon the traditional blog formatting in favor of a new magazine style layout for its network of nine sites.
The overhaul, the largest for Gawker Media since launching with Gizmodo in ...
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Today in pointless victories comes one for former Noxema girl Rebecca Gayheart and her Gray's Anatomy spouse, Eric Dane.
The two were featured in a widely viewed sex tape most prominently disseminated on Gawker. The clip, a fairly ...
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Gawker became the kind of media news it tends to report on today, with the announcement of the acquisition of CityFile and subsequent replacement of Editor in Chief Gabriel Snyder.
Explained in two memos, posted below, the ouster ...
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If hundreds of millions of pages views aren't enough to demonstrate that Nick Denton is one of the smartest guys in blogging, his latest trick might finally convince the doubters.
Roughly 24 hours ago (at the time of ...
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Anyone who follows Apple product launches will know that the company is extremely guarded about their products and apparently Gawker Media crossed the line this week when they offered $100,000 to the first person who could provide ...
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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 ...
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A new media campaign retaliating against ESPN for scandal related subterfuge got some old media attention today.
Deadspin, a Gawker media blog, gets oodles of sports and sportscaster news related tips and rumors in their inbox. Back at ...
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Actor Eric Dane has filled suit against Nick Denton's Gawker Media over Gawker's publication of the now infamous
"McSteamy" sex tape.
According to TMZ, "Dane and and [partner Rebecca] Gayheart filed the lawsuit today in L.A. County Superior ...
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Gawker media blogs and Consumerist have been experiencing intermittent outages today.
"Server issues" is being bandied about as a cause- Consumerist, a blog that was sold by Gawker Media in 2008, indicated as such at around 11:30am EST ...
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Gawker Media has always been an interesting sales proposition in terms of breadth. While there are solid, safe titles like Lifehacker and Gizmodo, there's the gossip sites and even the lite porn site Fleshbot. So how do ...
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Valleywag Editor Owen Thomas is leaving the Gawker Media empire for greener pastures at NBC, according naturally to Valleywag.
Thomas joined Valleywag in 2007 from Business 2.0, and oversaw the demise of the site from a multi-person dedicated ...
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Gawker Media's Nick Denton has shut Defamer as a standalone site.
Defamer wasn't named when Denton started making cuts to the network in November (we speculated it might be cut), but was said to be close to a ...
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The Consumers Union, the US based independent, nonprofit testing and information service for consumers has acquired Gawker Media blog The Consumerist.
The Consumerist, a blog dedicated to exposing consumer scams and bad company practices went up for sale ...
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For most of this year, possibly longer, The Huffington Post has been syndicating articles on their site with links back to the original source. The general idea is to take 2-3 paragraphs from the original source, then ...
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The Jossip Blog Network has closed two long established blogs: Mollygood and Stereohyped.
Network owner David Hauslaib said in a note to staff that the sites were shutting due to the broader economic climate going in to 2009. ...
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Gawker Media's The Consumerist site is close to finalizing a sale, according to a recently published report.
The Consumerist, which was put on the auction block as part of Gawker's overall cuts last month, is currently in "preliminary ...
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Among the doom and gloom of the economic crisis and recession there's been no stronger advocate of a worst case scenario outcome for new media than Nick Denton. Over several essays, Denton has argued that online advertising ...
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