Quotes by Nick Denton

About Nick Denton:

Nick Denton is a British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com. For years after starting Gawker Media in 2002, Denton ran the company out of his apartment in SoHo.
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Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

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We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

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You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in tou...

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Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

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Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoa...

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Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.

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An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

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Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.

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The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that every...

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Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

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Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

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Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

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Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

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It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.

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I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page.

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Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV seas...

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Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

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As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'

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I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

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I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.

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Author Bio

  • NameNick Denton
  • DescriptionBritish journalist
  • BornAugust 24, 1966
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist