British - Journalist | August 24, 1966 -
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
Nick Denton
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Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
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We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
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It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.
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Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That's the career path.
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Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.
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Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.
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It irritates me that everybody concentrates on Gawker, because it's just one of 15 sites and it doesn't even get the most traffic. It's a significant site, but it's not what we are.
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As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
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Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
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I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.
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While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
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