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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You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked.

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Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That's the career path.

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It irritates me that everybody concentrates on Gawker, because it's just one of 15 sites and it doesn't even get the most traffic. It's a significant site, but it's not what we are.

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That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

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I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing...

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I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

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My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering studen...

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The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.

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The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.

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Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'

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I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presum...

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There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to admit. Each was the other's future. Radar served up the exclusives I always envied. Gawker was actually comfortable on ...

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While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

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I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

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Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

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Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

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Author Bio

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