Tag: Valleywag
On Friday, Nick Denton at Valleywag gave proper a tongue-lashing to Federated and the prominent bloggers in the ad network — Om Malik, Michael Arrington, Fred Wilson, Paul Kedrosky, Matt Marshall (plus Richard MacManus, Mike Davidson, and Federated founder John Battelle) — who agreed to give pappy quotes over their names for a platitudinous campaign about business that is “people-ready,” said quotes appearing on a minisite Federated made for Microsoft and on banner ads. We, the public, are supposed to become so engaged in this fit of...
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A leaked internal email surfaced on Dealbook blog. It’s from Gawker executive Lockhart Steele to Gawker staff, and here it is:
We let Nick Douglas go from Valleywag yesterday.
As you know, we don’t make moves like this lightly, so let me explain our thinking, and the lessons from it.
Gawker sites are designed to be written from an outsider perspective. That’s one reason we’re game to hire writers like Nick Douglas, who came to San Francisco last January straight from college as a near-total outsider to the web scene. But anytime...
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Kevom 1 year 7 months ago
Nick Denton, publisher of Valleywag and founder of Gawker Media - has taken over writing duties.
According to Denton, he wants to make Valleywag more about financial gossip instead of just "about sex in the Valley.
I'm sure Nick Douglas made a lot of enemies, but the new Valleywag look just plain amateur... There is no official word from Douglas yet (the day after).
Nick Douglas has been a lot of fun to read!!!!
UPDATE
Nick Douglas writes:
It's traditional for an exiting Gawker Media editor to write a farewell post. I don't have...
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