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 »
Vox Media and former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein have come under fire for not being specific enough about what Project X is going to be — but some of the… Read more »
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff, who just hired former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein and a team to reinvent online news with something called Project X, says the new venture will… Read more »
Media companies seem to be focused on rebuilding the giants of yesteryear, like Time Inc. or Conde Nast, for an online world — and the main reason is that the advertising-based… Read more »
Vox Media, which owns tech site The Verge, sports community site SB Nation and gaming site Polygon, has raised another $34 million, according to an SEC filing noted by AllThingsD. The… Read more »
The media elite increasingly belongs to digital only entities. Look under the hood of some of these new power brokers, and you’ll see an unprecedented amount of ordinary people shaping the… Read more »
Although many traditional media outlets and journalists see reader comments as having little or no value, publishers like Gawker and The Verge see them as a potential source of revenue –… Read more »
The Verge made a big splash in November 2011, when it arrived with a custom built publishing system and plans to take over tech reporting. One year later, it’s making some… Read more »
Vox Media’s long awaited video game site, Polygon, finally launched on Wednesday. Will the company’s heavy investments in tech and staff pay off as well for gaming news as they did… Read more »
It’s all about the platform — except when it isn’t: Speakers at paidContent 2012 spoke about the opportunities, challenges and constraints of creating digital content. Read more »