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Its Kinja commenting platform is the future of Gawker, but also a thorn in the side of its writers

on August 11, 2014

Gawker founder Nick Denton has said that the Kinja commenting platform is a key part of the future of his media empire, but a group of his writers took to the Jezebel blog to complain that it makes it easier for commenters to post abusive messages

Iceberg rescues Titanic: Content marketer launches fund for investigative journalism

on July 30, 2014

Contently, a New York-based startup that specializes in content marketing, has launched a non-profit foundation that will use some of the revenue from its marketing business to fund investigative journalism

This week in media: VICE talks, Gawker balks, the NYT kills blogs and GE starts its own news hub

on June 27, 2014

In this week’s roundup of media-industry shenanigans, VICE Media wants to be bought, Gawker doesn’t, General Electric starts an online magazine while Medium expands an existing one, and the New York Times is killing its blogs but says it still really likes blogging

If you want more news from First Look Media’s The Intercept, you’re going to have to wait

on April 14, 2014

John Cook, editor of First Look Media’s investigative news vehicle The Intercept, says the site is still trying to hire writers and editors and put an editorial structure together, and so there likely won’t be any new material that isn’t NSA related for some time

The internet didn’t invent viral content or clickbait journalism — there’s just more of it now, and it happens faster

on April 1, 2014

Many people seem to believe that the idea of “clickbait” or artificially viral content was invented by the internet or social media, but it has been around for centuries and was arguably perfected by newspapers — all the web has done is make it faster and more efficient

Traffic is a good thing for media companies to pay attention to — except when it isn’t

on March 24, 2014

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 flawed, and as such aren’t always a good measure of actual value

Believe it or not, Nick Denton and Gawker Media want the same thing that Wikipedia does

on February 21, 2014

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 Denton tells Playboy magazine

As the line between platform and publisher continues to blur, who wins and who loses?

on February 9, 2014

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 of those platforms are towards the users who create most of the content

A growing obsession with viral content exposes the weakness of most digital media

on December 3, 2013

Everyone from BuzzFeed to the Washington Post seems to be chasing after viral content because of the traffic it brings — but all this does is reinforce how doomed the pageview-based model really is

The soul of a new machine: Gawker struggles with the slippery slope between viral and true

on October 4, 2013

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 is based on?

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