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1. August 24, 2011 04:30 PM

   From Commenter to Contributor

   On some blogs, taking the comment section seriously can mean hiring people from it

   By Alysia Santo

   During a string of “boring, terrible” office jobs, Gabriel Delahaye started to regularly comment on Gawker’s articles. He wasn’t just doing this for fun. He had every intention of getting himself noticed: e-mailing tips to the editors and just making himself “a general nuisance.” He wanted to be a writer, and while he had a blog, he was trying to...

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2. 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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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 8, 2011 12:45 PM

   Introducing the Grantland Corrections Desk

   Deadspin picks up Bill Simmons’s slack

   By Craig Silverman

   “Without looking it up, I can tell you the night the Toronto Blue Jays won their first World Series — October 24, 1992 — because that was also the night I lost my virginity.” That’s how Esquire writer at large Chris Jones began his first column about the American League East for Grantland, the new sports website headed by Bill...

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