More and more publishers are choosing to tie the compensation they give their writers to some kind of traffic-based measurement — but short-term metrics like pageviews and unique visitors are inherently… Read more »
The force behind Gawker’s revolutionary Kinja commenting platform is a vision of the future in which the truth about events is determined democratically by journalists and non-journalists alike, Gawker founder Nick… Read more »
The term “platishers” is a terrible one, but Jonathan Glick of Sulia has a point about the increasingly blurred lines between platforms and publishers. The real question is what the duties… Read more »
Rumors have been swirling that Gawker founder Nick Denton has been talking to Henry Blodget about acquiring or merging with his site Business Insider, but Denton says in an IM conversation… Read more »
When you come across a viral story about a heart-warming incident that you know will get millions of pageviews, how closely should you look into the claims that the viral story… Read more »
The Columbia Journalism Review says that bloggers like Kara Swisher and Andrew Sullivan are unique, and that other journalists and writers shouldn’t look to them as examples of what is possible… Read more »
Popular Science magazine says it is shutting down comments because they are “bad for science,” but what’s really bad for science is closing off a potential avenue for informed debate around… Read more »
Many publishers have given up on reader comments, but Gawker founder Nick Denton says he not only finds them worthwhile, he sees them as one of the key factors in the… Read more »
Pax Dickinson, the former CTO for Business Insider, lost his job after some of his tweets were criticized for being sexist and racist. But at what point does public shaming of… Read more »
The Digital Riptide project interviewed more than 60 senior media and technology players about the disruption of journalism and the media industry over the past three decades — but is their… Read more »