Nick Denton

Rethinking Gawker’s Redesign

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

Dear Gawker …

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

QOTD: Forget the Tabloid Crap — It’s Time for Fancy Tabloid Crap!

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

Gawker Media’s Nick Denton Wants Out of the Porn Business

Peter Kafka in Media on November 17, 2011 at 6:37 am PT

Fleshbot is for sale. Why now? Why not?

Gawker’s Nick Denton Loses a $100 Bet (Video)

Peter Kafka in Media on October 13, 2011 at 7:21 am PT

Featuring boozy narration courtesy of Reuters columnist Felix Salmon.

Gawker Gets Into the TV Business — The Japanese Cult Hit Game Show TV Business

Peter Kafka in Media on June 15, 2011 at 2:16 pm PT

Nick Denton says he wants his blog empire to be more than a blog empire — he wants it to be like TV. So here’s the next logical step: He’s going to start running a TV show on one of his blogs.

Gawker's Nick Denton: See, You Ingrates? This Is What We're Trying to Do (Video)

Peter Kafka in Media on February 10, 2011 at 8:44 pm PT

The Blog King doesn’t want to be the Blog King: He wants his sites to be as compelling as TV. Here’s his promo reel.

Gawkergate Password Mess Was Two Years in the Making

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 3:32 pm PT

The weaknesses of Gawker’s password system were pointed out clearly in 2008, although nothing was ever done about it. You know how that turned out.

Still Changing Passwords Today? Silverpop Attack May Be Why.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 15, 2010 at 7:40 am PT

The hacking incident that affected McDonald’s appears to have wider implications for users of scores of other Web sites, and it may be connected, though indirectly, to the weekend attack on Gawker.

Nick Denton "So Very Sorry" About Giant Gawker Media Hack

Peter Kafka in Media on December 13, 2010 at 10:56 am PT

It takes something pretty catastrophic for Nick Denton to apologize in public. So mark this one down: The Gawker Media owner says he’s “so very sorry” about the hacking attack that exposed some 1.5 million of his readers’ passwords.