Nick Denton is putting his money where his mouth is, placing a cash bet with Rex Sorgatz that the redesign of Gawker Media sites will help grow... MORE >
The Gawker redesign, horseman of the blogocolypse, went live today across Gawker Media properties. The redesign was previewed in a manifesto penned and published by boss Nick Denton and is still a "work in progress" according to a post by Gawker editor Remy Stern. As with Jalopnik and io9, where the changes were previously unveiled, visitors can always switch back to the familiar blog format, via a button in the top right.... MORE >
StumbleUpon just responded by email to The Observer's earlier story about how the Gawker redesign dropped Twitter and StumbleUpon in favor of just... MORE >
Gawker went live with its redesign on three of its web sites this morning, io9, Gawker TV and Jalopnik. Interestingly, the Gawker redesign has stripped out Twitter and Stumble Upon—which used to sit next to each article, making it simple for readers to share stories with those services. "We have Facebook," Gawker CEO Nick Denton told The Observer by email. "That's by far the biggest social source of traffic for... MORE >
It had been such a good week for Nick... MORE >
Over the weekend, Gawker Media suffered a major cyber attack, prompting what must be the most earnest, snark-free post the site has ever published. "We understand how important trust is on the internet," the post reads, "and we're deeply sorry for and embarrassed about this breach of security—and of... MORE >
Nick Denton and Henry Blodget were in a jovial mood today, chatting about the new media business at Business Insider's Ingnition Conference. Blodget wanted to know if Denton, who recently penned an opus on Gawker's new direction, would be moving away from some of their most successful, but ethically questionable practices, like paying for scoops. "I love paying for information!" Denton affirmed, estimating that the $12,000 Gawker paid for pictures of Brett Farve's penis have added... MORE >
The Washington Post was really asking for it when, for a straight-faced story about paying sources for information, they talked to Gawker media overlord Nick Denton. The conversation consisted of "an exchange of electronic... MORE >
On Oct. 25, Gawker received a graphic crime scene photo from a tipster in the East Village. Gawker ran the photo, which showed the dead body of Christopher Jusko, a 21-year-old who was stabbed to death that same morning. After complaints from Jusko's friends and family, the picture was... MORE >
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Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton sent a memo to staff this morning announcing that the sites in his dominion drew in 9.1 million people this past week, putting it ahead of The Huffington Post. Here's the memo in full, courtesy... MORE >
"Search and Destroy," New Yorker scribe Ben McGrath's 10,000-word profile of Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton, went live on the magazine's website around midnight last night. It's thorough, witty and well-sourced, as it allows quotes from the acid-tongued chorus of former and current Gawker writers to create a somewhat fresh — albeit still slightly clouded — take on a figure that has already been endlessly picked... MORE >
AOL has officially purchased Techcrunch. The media giant has been eyeing the indie blog since as far back as 2008. But a quick look at AOL's recent slide in covering the tech sector shows why it finally sealed the deal. A year ago Endgadget and Gizmodo, the respective tech blogs of AOL and Gawker, were fairly even in terms of traffic. That trend held until about January of this year, when AOL even briefly took... MORE >
You may have already read about the big-ish Gawker Media profile that's out today. That's right: Edmund Lee's Advertising Age item about Chris Batty, Nick Denton's head of sales. "There's one thing that people don't quite get about Chris," Mr. Denton told Mr. Lee. "His Napoleonic... MORE >
There's a Nick Denton profile on newsstands today. It's short on new revelations into the Gawker Media overlord's life and psyche, but there is one surprising tidbit: the story isn't in The New Yorker, it's in New York... MORE >
Gawker has found someone to fill its empty editor/reporter position: John Cook, who left Nick Denton last April to join the expanding ranks at... MORE >
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