That didn’t take long. Neetzan Zimmerman, the ousted editor-in-chief of anonymous app Whisper and former Gawker viral king, has landed a new gig. Political publication The Hill has hired him as… Read more »
As the tech-media market becomes more competitive thanks to aggressive expansion by both Vox Media and BuzzFeed, Gawker Media is merging its tech blogs into a single unit as part of… Read more »
In a memo to staff, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton says the site will no longer judge the value of posts purely on how much traffic they generate, and that when… Read more »
When is a media company also a technology company? When the use of technology — not just for publishing, but for understanding how content flows and is discovered online — is… Read more »
Turning a media site into a massive, multibillion-dollar property reaching hundreds of millions of readers isn’t the only route to success any more — starting and running a niche or targeted… Read more »
Gawker founder Nick Denton unveiled a management shakeup he referred to as “the great unclenching,” in which he will share power over the blog network with a management committee of seven,… Read more »
Annalee Newitz, the editor of Gawker’s science blog io9, stepped forward on Monday to confess to a screwup with a story — and in the process showed why admitting your mistakes… Read more »
Layoffs at newspapers like the New York Times are no longer a surprise. But we should be careful not to assume that just because some papers are downsizing, journalism as a… Read more »
New-media companies like BuzzFeed, Gawker, VICE Media and Tumblr are all expanding rapidly both in New York itself and around the world — almost all are moving into new buldings or… Read more »
Most traditional media outlets are used to thinking of journalism or news as something they create and then distribute to a waiting audience — but seeing it as a product or… Read more »