Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Gawking at the Media World
Nick Denton is sitting amid the rows of screen-staring digital workers in the fourth-floor walkup that serves as Gawker headquarters, having neglected to build himself a private office.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Gawker Chief: ‘Original Reporting Will Be Rewarded’
Gawker Media impresario Nick Denton, one of the more vocal Cassandras of media collapse last fall, got a surprise this spring when things turned out to be, well, not so bad.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Biggest Mistake of the Past 10 Years? Too Much Stuff.
Bear with me as we recap last week’s 100-yard dash of media industry financial woe before breasting the tape of eternal doom. First comes ITV with its 40 percent profit decline, 600 redundancies and regional closures, then Channel Five making one in four people redundant–saving almost as much money as Channel 4 will gain from Kevin Lygo halving his £1m pay package. In print, things are no less unappealing.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Valleywag’s Demise Shows Silicon Valley Ain’t Hollywood
It’s more than a rumor: The great Silicon Valley gossip rag experiment has come to a humbling conclusion.
Two and a half years after launching Valleywag, blog magnate Nick Denton has decided to fold the site into Gawker, which covers the media business. For the past month, Denton has been saying to everyone who will listen that online advertising is undergoing a sharp slowdown as the economy continues to tank, and Web publishers are going to get nailed.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Nick Denton “Pruning” Gawker Media, Ditching Three Sites
Gawker Media boss Nick Denton is “rationalizing” his blog business by spinning off three underperforming sites: Wonkette, Gridskipper and Idolator. “There’s a cold wind coming,” says Denton, via IM. “We need to focus on our core titles.” The move will leave Denton with 12 sites, including science fiction site io9, launched in January.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Prize for Best Performance in a Declining Industry Goes to..
Lots of interesting debate about this week’s Pulitzer Prizes and what they say about the newspaper industry. On Gawker, Nick Denton very smartly says that “the newspapers’ Pulitzer-chasing is most damaging because it distracts newspapers from their real challenge. Rather than impress colleagues with the seriousness of their reporting, U.S. newspapers need to engage a readership that is drifting off to television and the Internet.”
Monday, April 7, 2008
Blogonomics: Valleywag Pay Slashed
Jordan Golson can’t be happy: Nick Denton has cut the amount of money he gets per thousand page views to $6.50 from $9.75. That’s a 33% pay cut, on a per-page-view basis. What about on an absolute basis?
Well, the page-view rate is set on the basis of the previous quarter’s page views. Total Q4 page views were 9,132,723, while Q1 page views rose 34% to 12,234,604 . The 33% cut matches the 34% rise in page views, right? Er, no.
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