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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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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The move by b5media yesterday to terminate the contracts of over 50 bloggers writing for its now defunct entertainment network is the first stage in the mass firing of all contract bloggers, The Inquisitr has learned.
The full ...
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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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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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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 has an interesting post this morning proving that newspapers may have not quite lost their relevance yet.
One of the site's bloggers pointed out a picture in today's paper that appears to show the ex-Mrs. Pitt's cash ...
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For much of last night and earlier today, most of Gawker Media's properties were experiencing intermittent downtime, which is highly unusual for them.
All properties seem to be back up and running at their peak as I write ...
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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'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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Web publisher Gawker Media is cutting its writers' rates for the second time this year, according to a report by Radar Online.
The company -- responsible for such blog giants as Valleywag, Lifehacker, and Gizmodo -- has dropped ...
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