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GawkerTV Launches With Intern Workforce, Optimistic About Ad Sales - Posted November 3, 2009
Today's launch of Gawker.TV is the product of Richard Blakeley's three years as Nick Denton's video editor. Now the This Is Why You're Fat co-author is manning his own satellite site, which will be posting videos throughout the day, with the help of the 16 or so interns currently working under... [FishBowlNY]
GawkerTV Launches With Intern Workforce, Optimistic About Ad Sales - Posted November 3, 2009
Today's launch of Gawker.TV is the product of Richard Blakeley's three years as Nick Denton's video editor. Now the This Is Why You're Fat co-author is manning his own satellite site, which will be posting videos throughout the day, with the help of the 16 or so interns currently working under... [FishBowlNY]
At Gawker, Traffic Graphs Only Tell Part Of The Story - Posted July 28, 2009
Yesterday, Gawker's Nick Denton boasted about the tremendous revenue growth his company had experienced during the first half of the year, despite the recession.
Denton also published some graphs showing weekly traffic at his company's sites since May 2007. All of them seem to be trending up or flat throughout 2009,... [FishBowlNY]
Friedman Gives Back $75K|Double X Takes On Jezebel|10 Reasons Why Bailing Out Newspapers Is A Bad Idea|Mag Publishers' Buyout Deal|Bankrupt Tribune Denied Severance - Posted May 13, 2009
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GalleyCat: New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman has returned a $75,000 speaker's fee.
WebNewser: Slate's new online women's magazine, Double X, published a critique of Gawker's lady blog, Jezebel, on its... [FishBowlNY]
Friedman Gives Back $75K|Double X Takes On Jezebel|10 Reasons Why Bailing Out Newspapers Is A Bad Idea|Mag Publishers' Buyout Deal|Bankrupt Tribune Denied Severance - Posted May 13, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cArizona State Snubs Obamathedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesEconomic CrisisPolitical Humor
GalleyCat: New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman has returned a $75,000 speaker's fee.
WebNewser: Slate's new online women's magazine, Double X, published a critique of Gawker's lady blog, Jezebel, on its... [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]
Does HuffPo Like Its Male Bloggers Better? - Posted November 13, 2008
Arianna Huffington apparently prefers men. That's the conclusion anyway of a study done for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting by former HuffPoer Jessica Wakeman. Wakeman tracked the 13 featured blog posts on Huffington Post's homepage (full disclosure: we once worked there) twice daily for for nine weeks and coded... [FishBowlNY]
Elizabeth Spiers' New (ish) Project: An Online Maxim for Women - Posted October 23, 2008
Elizabeth Spiers, who launched Gawker back in 2002 along with Nick Denton, and also had a hand in launching this blog (among others), is talking with WWD about her new project, something she is describing it as an online "Maxim for women." Per WWD:Her idea is to "cater to the... [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]
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]
The Jezebellion Wave - Posted July 16, 2008
We're not sure how many FBNY readers have been keeping up with the whole Jezebel kerfuffle between the July 4 holiday and going Canadian we mostly missed it. However, since it continues to pop up in conversations and online we thought it was worth a mention.
Short... [FishBowlNY]
Schadenfreude Special: Wild Fires - Posted October 23, 2007
Natural disasters really bring out the worst in people:
Glenn Beck takes a swing at the residents of Malibu.
Jezebel is glad all those rich people in San Diego are losing their ill-gotten McMansions.
VH1's Harold Goldberg thinks a video game based on the fires is a great idea.
Where the fires predicted on Art... [FishBowlLA]





