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Gawker Media’s Nick Denton Sells Another Blog and Puts Another One on the Block

in Media on December 30, 2008 at 2:43 pm PT

Gawker Media’s Nick Denton continues to shrink his blog empire: He has sold off Consumerist.com to Consumers Union, the nonprofit that publishes Consumer Reports. And he is in talks to sell Defamer.com.

Dave Kansas Out at Dow Jones-IAC Finance Site FiLife

in Media on November 18, 2008 at 2:11 pm PT

FiLife, the personal finance site co-owned IAC and Dow Jones, has a new boss. The company has brought in Ezra Kucharz, formerly an executive at online games company Oberon Media and at NBC’s iVillage, as president. He replaces Dave Kansas, a business news veteran. Kansas will stay on as an editor-at-large.