If anyone knows why journalists like to interview journalists, I’d be interested in hearing your hypothesis. In any event, I answered some questions for PurePolitics.com about Gawker. It’s up now.
Also? This is definitely a picture of me in college at Alpha Delta’s Supertails Halloween party. We were dressed as the Pink Ladies from Grease. Just thought I’d get that out there. LOVE the immutability of the Internets. LOVE it.
…and where the money’s at, according to anyone working in web publishing for the last decade. Then again, I’m loving this adorable New Nick running around introducing the concept to all. It’s such fantastic theater.
(via nickdouglas)
“Where’s my pageview bonus, Denton?”
“Gawker Media’s Nick Denton, one of the first to pay writers according to their page views and now a high-profile skeptic of the practice…in the last year, he has moved to hiring them as full-time employees, with set salaries and bonuses tied to “unique visitors”—a metric that he says measures the writer’s ability to bring new readers into the fold. No sentimentalist, Denton says he changed the formula because he found that page-view incentives encouraged writers to deliver worthless rehashes rather than reporting and tabloid-style scoops—in other words, journalism.”
Above: Putting a Price on Words, NYT Magazine, May 10, 2010
ohmygood. it’s a MAAAAAAAGGGGGGGIIIIIIIIIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(much like myself)