Here’s an Example of Gawker ‘Struggling for the Soul of Internet Media’
During a Q&A session with Gawker readers, Nick Denton — founder of the Gawker Media empire — said some hilarious things. The most...
View ArticleGawker Editor John Cook Joins First Look Media
Gawker editor-in-chief John Cook is leaving the media blog for First Look Media, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's startup news organization, according to multiple media reports. Cook will join former...
View ArticleGawker Targets Quentin Tarantino's Motive for 'Hateful Eight' Lawsuit
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments The latest court papers allude to Gawker's "past" reporting about the director. AP Images Before a California judge has his say, Gawker is getting another word in...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino Bashes Gawker's Journalistic Ethics in Script Leak Lawsuit
Quentin Tarantino: Oscar-winning filmmaker, occasional actor, and now, journalistic ethicist. Back in January, Tarantino announced that he was nixing his plans to make “The Hateful Eight” his next big...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Teams Up With Ex-Gawker Traffic Guru at Whisper
BuzzFeed has reached a content-sharing agreement with Whisper, an anonymous social network where former Gawker traffic guru Neetzan Zimmerman is now editor-in-chief. Zimmerman and another Whisper...
View ArticleDisney Tried to Acquire BuzzFeed
Keep an eye out on Facebook for BuzzFeed's next listacle: 21 Reasons Disney Didn't Acquire Us. Fortune reports that the Walt Disney Co. was in negotiations earlier this year to acquire the media outlet...
View ArticleGawker Rips Buzzfeed in Ban on ‘WTF,’ ‘Epic’ and Other Internet Slang From...
OMG, this happened. Gawker's newest editor-in-chief, Max Read, sent a memo to his website's staff this week banning internet slang and slamming BuzzFeed. Read told TheWrap the guidelines weren't...
View Article‘The Wolf of BuzzFeed’ Hilariously Lampoons the Cat-Loving Website and Jonah...
What if Jordan Belfort had been more into cats and the 90s? Half Day Today explores that question in a funny new satirical trailer entitled “The Wolf of BuzzFeed.” Also read: Gawker's Nick Denton Picks...
View ArticleWhy Gawker Media's Nick Denton Is Constantly Attacking BuzzFeed And Its CEO...
Nick Denton Gawker Media founder Nick Denton does not like BuzzFeed. Yesterday he launched another seemingly unprovoked attack against BuzzFeed. On Gawker's new commenting platform Kinja, Denton wrote,...
View ArticleNick Denton: ‘Our Biggest Competitor in Media is BuzzFeed’
Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, took to a Gawker Kinja site today to answer questions from readers. It was basically Gawker’s version of Reddit’s popular...
View ArticleGawker's Nick Denton Picks Fight With BuzzFeed, Calls Website ‘Pointless’
Gawker has BuzzFeed in its snarky crosshairs. The website's founder Nick Denton held an online meeting on Tuesday and singled out the listicle-loving social content sharing website as its chief rival....
View ArticleGawker Founder Nick Denton Stepping Down as President
Gawker founder Nick Denton is stepping down as the company's president, but he will stay on as CEO. “I have some important news,” he wrote to staff�on Wednesday. “Usually, that's how I start a...
View ArticleNick Denton Steps Down As Gawker's President
3:52 PM ET Krishnadev Calamur Twitter Managing partners at Gawker: Erin Pettigrew (@superfem) and Heather Dietrick (@heetstweets). c. Victor Jeffreys. pic.twitter.com/IJSh1GGoLK— Nick Denton...
View ArticleBuzzFeed founder says unionizing would not be 'great' for company
Jonah Peretti said there’s no need for union because digital media company provides ‘amazing benefits’ and fosters ‘alliance’ between managers and staff...
View ArticleGawker Founder Nick Denton Opens About Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Lawsuit
Gawker Media is in the fight of its life with ex-wrestler Hulk Hogan. The company is facing a $100 million lawsuit filed by Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, for publishing a leaked video that showed the...
View ArticleGawker founder Nick Denton has filed for personal bankruptcy
NEW YORK (AP) - Gawker founder Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy Monday in the aftermath of a Florida jury's awarding $140 million to Hulk Hogan in a privacy case revolving...
View ArticleGawker’s Nick Denton Blames New York Times for Starting Iraq War
Gawker founder Nick Denton said he “absolutely” regrets publishing some stories, but doesn’t feel the consequences are as serious as a mistake the New York Times made. “I don’t think we’ve ever made a...
View ArticleGawker’s Nick Denton Reflects on Site’s Failure in Final Post: ‘Freedom Was...
Gawker founder Nick Denton authored one final story for the site on Monday, a post titled “How Things Work” set to serve as the blog’s last before it shuts down for good. Named for one of the site’s...
View ArticleDoes Quentin Tarantino Have a Case Against Gawker? (Analysis)
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments As the director declares war over the leak of Western "The Hateful Eight" and studios begin to take NSA-level secrecy precautions, attorney Marty Singer talks to The...
View ArticleGawker Boss Nick Denton Fires Gawker Editor Nick Denton, Shuffling Blog Staff...
Nearly 10 months after Gawker Media boss Nick Denton pulled a Cheney and appointed himself editor of his flagship blog, he's about to step down. More interestingly, we hear that Denton plans some...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino Files Amended ‘Hateful Eight’ Lawsuit Against Gawker
Gawker may have won the battle with Quentin Tarantino over the leaked “Hateful Eight” lawsuit, but the filmmaker clearly hopes that he might still win the war. Tarantino has filed an amended complaint...
View ArticleGawker Media Inc. Dismissed From Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Hateful 8′ Lawsuit
Gawker Media Group, Inc., parent company of the snarky media blogs Gawker and Defamer, has been dismissed without prejudice from Quentin Tarantino’s copyright lawsuit after it argued the court does not...
View ArticleFrom Smarm To Snark, We’re All Soldiers In The War On Obscurity
By James PoulosDecember 7th 20135:45 am More Stories by James Poulos If we’re all equal, then no one is special, which sits well with almost no one. It is an open question whether history will some day...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino's ‘Hateful Eight’ Lawsuit Against Gawker Dismissed
Gawker has emerged triumphant in its legal battle with Quentin Tarantino. A federal judge in California has dismissed Tarantino's lawsuit against Gawker Media, which the director filed in January,...
View ArticleNick Denton Says Gawker Will Move Beyond The Snark And Viscous Gossip
Beth Monaghan, InkLings@InkHouse | Jan. 3, 2011, 2:50 PM | 10 | A A A x Email Article From To Message Email Sent!...
View ArticleThe New Yorker Profiles “Curiously Loyal, Ruthless” Gawker Media Founder Nick...
Gawker Media founder Nick Denton goes by many titles: journalist, editor, proprietor, and Internet entrepreneur are a few that come to mind. However, now that Ben McGrath of The New Yorker has posted a...
View ArticleBuzzFeed's former 'copyranter' rants about being fired: 'They shouldn't have...
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Mark Duffy, a copywriter-turned-ad critic, was fired from BuzzFeed last month, and now he has written a "BuzzFeedy listicle" to countdown 10 "possible" reasons he was fired....
View ArticleGorged on Snark and Personal Loftiness
Remember that epic Tom Scocca piece on smarm and snark in Gawker? I was kind of on the same page with Scocca for the first chunk of it. He has some great zingers and I'm a sucker for a skillful...
View ArticleGawker Founder Nick Denton Sits Down with NBC's 'Rock Center,' Where's BriWi?
Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio already revealed the Brian Williams-Nick Denton bromance in January, so...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino Taking Gawker To Court After Subversive Website Invites...
Breaking: Quentin Tarantino is taking Gawker Media to court after the snarky website brazenly posted a link to The Hateful Eight, the first draft screenplay...
View Article>NICK DENTON: Zuckerberg Tweaked The Facebook Algorithm After The CEO Of...
Here's a juicy bit of gossip about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Gawker Media leader (and Peretti foil) Nick Denton says that last year Peretti told Zuckerberg to tweak...
View ArticleNICK DENTON: Zuckerberg Tweaked The Facebook Algorithm After The CEO Of...
Here's a juicy bit of gossip about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Gawker Media leader (and Peretti foil) Nick Denton says that last year Peretti told Zuckerberg to tweak...
View ArticleGawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to...
After users accuse him of trying to emulate BuzzFeed, Denton jumps into the fray to accuse rival Jonah Peretti of 'stunt' tactics Nick Denton is already a seasoned user of Gawker's new comment system....
View ArticleNick Denton Is Crushing BuzzFeed And Jonah Peretti Right Now In Gawker's...
Ready for a good old fashion blog fight? Nick Denton is crushing BuzzFeed, and its cofounder Jonah Peretti, over at Gawker using its new commenting system. He says, "Jonah Peretti is one of the...
View ArticleHow Gawker Media C.E.O. Nick Denton Created His Own Mess
As the media world weighs in on the recent Gawker fracas caused by 27-year-old staff writer Jordan Sargent posting a controversial...
View ArticleHulk Hogan Says Gawker’s Nick Denton ‘Scared the Hell Out of Me’ During...
Hulk Hogan may have emerged triumphant in his lawsuit against Gawker, but it looks like we know who would win in a staring contest between Hogan and Gawker founder, Nick Denton. In an interview with...
View ArticleMeet the mad scientist of social media
London - This particular afternoon, for a few moments only, Jonah Peretti is trying not to create a social media sensation. No, he tells The Independent, with a shake of his head, he will not be rising...
View ArticleGawker’s Nick Denton Files for Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Sex-Tape Verdict
Gawker founder Nick Denton filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, after being hit with a multimillion-dollar verdict over the publication of sex-tape footage featuring pro wrestler Hulk Hogan. A...
View ArticleNick Denton Makes A Cash Bet Gawker Media Won't Lose Pageviews With New Format
Jay Yarow | Feb. 7, 2011, 12:01 PM | 13 | A A A x Email Article From To Email Sent!...
View ArticleGawker Media Group to Quentin Tarantino: We're Safely Based in the Cayman...
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Nick Denton's company throws up a jurisdictional challenge to the lawsuit over the "Hateful Eight" leak. AP Nick Denton Gawker has a tropical reason why a judge should...
View ArticleGawker to Quentin Tarantino: We're Safely Based in the Cayman Islands
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Nick Denton's company throws up a jurisdictional challenge to the lawsuit over the "Hateful Eight" leak. AP Nick Denton Gawker has a tropical reason why a judge should...
View ArticleNick Denton: Weinstein Case Proves Gawker-Slaying Lawyer Can Be Stopped
Former Gawker chief Nick Denton says the case of Harvey Weinstein proves Gawker-slayer lawyer Charles Harder isn’t as all-powerful as some people think. Harder represented Weinstein and promised legal...
View ArticleGawker’s Nick Denton Leaves Empty Chair for Peter Thiel at Code Conference...
Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton spoke at Code Conference for roughly 45 minutes on Thursday in a discussion with Kara Swisher and an empty chair, which was reserved for Denton’s arch rival, billionaire...
View ArticleGawker Founder Nick Denton on Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Etc.: We Told...
Gawker founder Nick Denton, took to his personal blog on Monday to pen a personal essay laying out his thoughts on the recent spate of sexual harassment allegations swirling around the political and...
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