Words matter. These are the best Nick Denton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.
Forget about someone’s resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn’t lie.
Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.
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.
Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there’s Gawker ethics. It’s a dangerous thing to talk about.
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.
Most good media come out of somebody saying, ‘This should exist; this is something I want to read.’
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.
Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin’s scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin’s headline was 118 characters. Vital information – ‘hoax’ – was one of the words that was cut off.
The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It’s time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
I think straight couples have a schedule: You’re together for two years and then there’s the ‘where is this going?’ question, which wouldn’t necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it’s pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.
The most interesting comments, they don’t come from people with Klout scores. They don’t come from people with a history on our sites.
There was a rivalry – and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to admit. Each was the other’s future. Radar served up the exclusives I always envied. Gawker was actually comfortable on the web, in the medium Radar should have made its own.
Ben Smith’s quick-hit campaign ‘scoops’ are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.
I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.
I regret the stories we didn’t do – the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn’t have all of, so didn’t publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk – and the page.
Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor – with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn’t the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you’re a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.
