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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Nick Denton

1. July 6, 2012 06:50 AM

   Gawker’s new comment system

   Will it help or hurt the site's young writers?

   By Peter Sterne

   Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton recently introduced a new commenting system, called Kinja, on his network of websites. Rather than showing all comments on a given article, Kinja shows only the most interesting thread of comments and replies. Denton hopes this will finally make reporters and sources pay attention to the comments instead of dismissing them; to help ensure that,...

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2. June 19, 2012 02:45 PM

   He said, she said

   Anyone can spread gossip with an iPhone, rather than depend on dishy columns

   By Kira Goldenberg

   Gossip, according to longtime New York Post columnist Earl Wilson, is hearing something you like about someone you don’t. I have no attachment to the celebrities whose tidbits were shared at a panel on gossip Monday night. But I’m not going to spill. I think people are allowed private lives, even though being in the know makes me a (momentary)...

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3. May 23, 2012 11:03 AM

   How Gawker wants to monetize comments

   Denton’s vision for Gawker Media’s editorial product moves away from posts

   By Felix Salmon

   Back in November, I grappled with the fact that online display ads in general, and banner ads in particular, are clearly not working very well; my suggested alternative was for brand advertisers to embrace the power of the external link. That was one suggestion; there are many, many more. But what they all have in common is that they’re attempts...

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4. July 19, 2012 06:50 AM

   Our gullible press

   Ryan Holiday explains how the singular pursuit of traffic makes online media suckers for fake news

   By Ryan Holiday

   One thing has been conspicuously absent from all criticism of online media and the future of news: an understanding of incentives. Incentives explain behavior. They explain nearly every major issue facing online media—from over-aggregation to speculative, iterative journalism, from pagination to the dearth of investigative reporting. I understand these incentives intimately for a simple reason: It's my job to exploit...

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