Choire Sicha

Choire Sicha Happily Unaware of TheAwl.com's Traffic - Posted April 22, 2009
Earlier this week, Choire Sicha and Alex Balk launched TheAwl.com to mostly positive acclaim. Has the press' lovefest led to strong traffic? Sicha, for one, has no idea. "You know, I have actually *never looked* at our traffic," he emailed FishbowlNY.com this morning. "I leave that in David Cho's capable hands;... [FishBowlNY]

Choire Sicha Happily Unaware of TheAwl.com's Traffic - Posted April 22, 2009
Earlier this week, Choire Sicha and Alex Balk launched TheAwl.com to mostly positive acclaim. Has the press' lovefest led to strong traffic? Sicha, for one, has no idea. "You know, I have actually *never looked* at our traffic," he emailed FishbowlNY.com this morning. "I leave that in David Cho's capable hands;... [FishBowlNY]

Awl Together Now: Balk and Choire Launch a Website - Posted April 20, 2009
Rumors that former Gawker-ers (and RadarOnline-ers) Alex Balk and Choire Sicha had some sort of secret project in the works have been flying around for a while now. Turns out the rumors were true. The Awl went live today.What if there were a website that zippily surveyed a wealth... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 01.16.09 - Posted January 16, 2009
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Arianna Thinks Opinion is Good, Also Facts! - Posted December 22, 2008
Choire Sicha interviewed Arianna Huffington for this weekend's Los Angeles Times — turns out Huffington still loves newspapers! Also, (perhaps not surprisingly) she doesn't see the proliferation of opinion onto the the front pages of newspapers as a bad thing at all.It's absolutely a good thing. Also, just the question... [FishBowlNY]

Gawker to Become a Boys' Club? - Posted December 2, 2008
Not to beat this to death, but it has yet to be noted that with the departure of Sheila McClear from Gawker the site suddenly finds itself without a female contributor for the first time since Choire Sicha took the reins from Elizabeth Spiers back in 2003. Of course, as... [FishBowlNY]

Ex-Gawker Editor Speculates on Why Denton Shuttered Valleywag - Posted November 20, 2008
Over at the L.A. Times ex-Gawker editor (and recent Radaronline scribe) Choire Sicha is speculating as to why Nick Denton decided last week to shut down Valleywag and fold it into the main Gawker site. The short version is that in the not too distant future things may actually be... [FishBowlNY]

Gawker Lays Off 19 Editorial Staff Including Moe Tkacik - Posted October 3, 2008
Gawker had their own black Friday newsdump today. In a move that may soon become known as the Denton doctrine, Gawker head Nick Denton announced that he was preemptively laying off 19 members of the editorial staff, including recently hired Moe Tkacik, and suspending page view bonuses for the first... [FishBowlNY]

Dude, You Adequately Attributed My Quote - Posted August 15, 2008
Where does aggregation end and plagiarism begin? Bill Boyarsky (former City Editor of the Los Angeles Times and current columnist for Truth Dig): "There are objections to news aggregation...it's not plagiarism, everything on the Huffington Post is linked and attributed...There's no way I could wake up every morning and find all of that... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 08.14.08 - Posted August 14, 2008
Good morning Washington. Who won yesterday's Hottest of the Hotties contest? Join us after the jump... Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning... [FishBowlDC]

Aggregation Vs. Plagiarism: Old and New Media Not As Divided As You'd Think - Posted August 12, 2008
Pop + Politics poses an interesting question to former L.A. Times City Editor Bill Boyarsky and former Gawker editor Choire Sicha: "Where does aggregation end and plagiarism begin?" In the article, editor Chris Nelson said the "Old" and "New" Media journalists' "perspectives were often a study in contrasts." But from our reading (and,... [FishBowlLA]

Aggregation Vs. Plagiarism: Old and New Media Not As Divided As You'd Think - Posted August 12, 2008
Pop + Politics poses an interesting question to former L.A. Times City Editor Bill Boyarsky and former Gawker editor Choire Sicha: "Where does aggregation end and plagiarism begin?" In the article, editor Chris Nelson said the "Old" and "New" Media journalists' "perspectives were often a study in contrasts." But from our reading (and,... [FishBowlLA]

Andrew Breitbart: Sensitive Olden Days Guy - Posted August 7, 2008
Choire Sicha penned a piece in Radar about Andrew Breitbart's new venture into the conservative Hollywood entertainment news 'market': What is more absolutely interesting to America than actors who have opinions about politics? Gosh, not much! (Economic regulation theory, maybe?) So, good news! Andrew Breitbart, the longtime Drudge henchman, is launching BigHollywood,... [FishBowlLA]

A Pox on Commenters and the Apocalyptic Horse They Rode in On! - Posted July 22, 2008
The recent chatter about online commenters is refusing to die down (apologies for the bad pun). You may recall how a few weeks ago Time's Lev Grossman was wondering what makes commenters so nuts (conclusion: basically deep down we're all mean). Since then the discussion appears to have turned... [FishBowlNY]

A Pox on Commenters and the Apocalyptic Horse They Rode in On! - Posted July 22, 2008
The recent chatter about online commenters is refusing to die down (apologies for the bad pun). You may recall how a few weeks ago Time's Lev Grossman was wondering what makes commenters so nuts (conclusion: basically deep down we're all mean). Since then the discussion appears to have turned... [FishBowlNY]

All Good Things, Etc.: Jezebel Moe to Radar - Posted July 22, 2008
Radar announced late last night that Jezebel stalwart Moe Tkacik is decamping to the website as of August 18. Tkacik's departure will be a big loss for the Gawker Media run Jezebel; she's roundly considered one of the stars of the site where she covers the politics beat and pens... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 07.18.08 - Posted July 18, 2008
Good morning Washington. Above, Luke Russert and James Carville spearhead XM radio's coverage of the MLB All-Star Game. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got... [FishBowlDC]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 26, 2007
Brother Against Brother: It took three reporters and Lord knows how many man hours to do it, but the LAT put together this thinly veiled plea to get mentioned on both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Good luck with that. Put The Lotion In the Basket: That chick from The... [FishBowlLA]

Breaking: Denton's Valleywag Poaches Editor From Business 2.0 - Posted June 14, 2007
Denton: Less blogging, more tanning We just got word that Valleywag has a new editor in Owen Thomas of Business 2.0. Thomas, a former online editor for Time Inc., currently edits 2.0's Beta blog and — most importantly — worked on beloved late '90s site Suck.com. Valleywag has been edited by Gawker... [FishBowlNY]

Partying With The King - Posted April 19, 2007
King and his wife flank the Trumps The short hallway between the "Pool Room" and bar acted as a sort of cosmic, generational media portal last night at the Four Seasons, where a pair of cocktail parties — one celebrating Larry King's 50 years in broadcasting (a.k.a the "old people room"), the... [FishBowlNY]

Meta Intel: New York Blog Rips Gawker On Lack Of Disclosure, Fails To Note Own - Posted February 28, 2007
Following a pair of Gawker posts — on the Observer's redesign and the undulating Frank Bruni imbroglio — today's Daily Intel points out Gawker's failure to disclose that managing editor Choire Sicha worked for the Observer and once dated Frank Bruni. Daily Intel itself, though, fails to point out that its editor,... [FishBowlNY]

Gawker Fires Mohney, Rehires Sicha - Posted January 18, 2007
Gawker Media has fired Chris Mohney, the first-ever managing editor of its flagship, Gawker, six months into his tenure. Daily Intel, edited by former Gawker co-editor Jesse Oxfeld (and former mediabistro.com editor), has the scoop on his old digs: Gawker Media, Nick Denton's swaggering blog network, yesterday fired Chris Mohney, the managing... [FishBowlNY]