For obsessive Gawker watchers and redesign doom-mongers: the 35.6m uniques in Jan 2012 is record and 55% up from last April’s nadir.
– Nick Denton, via Twitter, almost a year after Gawker’s controversial redesign
Can you please have the post of Brian Williams’ email to Nick Denton taken down immediately? That was sent in confidence as friends and absolutely never intended to be public. A speedy removal would go a long way in maintaining the trust and respect we have for your site.
– An email from NBC’s PR department requesting that Gawker take down its posting of an email from Brian Williams to Nick Denton, criticizing, among other things, the site’s recently reduced postings on the weekends; the request was added to the original post
Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
– Nick Denton, in his memo to staff on the Gawker empire in 2012
Kara Swisher in Media on January 6 at 11:12 am PT
Kevin Delaney is headed out to start a secret new online thing for the D.C.-based media company.
Shhh!
Peter Kafka in Media on November 17, 2011 at 6:37 am PT
Fleshbot is for sale. Why now? Why not?
Peter Kafka in Media on October 13, 2011 at 7:21 am PT
Featuring boozy narration courtesy of Reuters columnist Felix Salmon.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 4, 2011 at 7:13 am PT
Like everyone else on the Web, the brainy site will feature video clips it finds elsewhere. Unlike many others, it will ask for permission to use them.
Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2011 at 1:09 am PT
AOL will begin rolling out its plans to overhaul its panoply of content sites as soon as today, a key part of its integration with the Huffington Post, sources familiar with the situation said.
The New York-based Internet portal, which paid $315 million to acquire the high-profile news and opinion site, will essentially close down dozens of its dedicated content sites–some being shuttered completely and others integrated with existing Huffington Post sites.
Kara Swisher in News on March 12, 2011 at 3:03 pm PT
Josh Topolsky, the editor-in-chief of Engadget, is leaving the AOL-owned property, one of the largest tech news sites on the Web.
Also departing is Managing Editor Nilay Patel, said sources.
