Comments on: With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans “checkbook journalism”

By: More growth for Gawker comments, and more power to elite commenters » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:06:57 +0000

[...] written before about the commenting system at Gawker Media’s family of sites, which for my money strikes the [...]

By: The Awl gets a sister site, Splitsider, which will be its “newsy-voicey” compliment in covering comedy » Nieman Journalism Lab

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:42:23 +0000

[...] take off, there’s no base salary for him to rely on. His old job at Gizmodo paid him a base plus bonuses for big [...]

By: Gawker, un modelo extremo y llamativo | Hijo del medio

Gawker, un modelo extremo y llamativo | Hijo del medio — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:32:15 +0000

[...] is still a struggle. Not for Gawker Media, if publisher Nick Denton is to be believed when he tells NiemanLab’s Zachary M. Seward that the company’s ad revenues are up 35 percent in the first half of the year. And now that the [...]

By: Nieman Journalism Lab: Barriers to entry can improve quality and quantity of reader comments, says Gawker | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:07:17 +0000

[...] “We’ll be able to encourage the kind of discussion that *we* want – not one that is dominated merely by the most prolific of our commenters. It’s our party; we get to decide who comes,” wrote founder Nick Denton at the time. [...]

By: Tough love: Gawker finds making it harder for comments to be seen leads to more (and better) comments » Nieman Journalism Lab

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:23:05 +0000

[...] get preferred access to readers and the unknown hoi polloi have to audition for an audience. (We wrote about it at the time; in an internal memo, Denton wrote about “taking back the site from some commenters who [...]

By: Bloggasm » Gawker pays money to “tipsters”

Bloggasm » Gawker pays money to “tipsters” — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:59:36 +0000

[...] With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans â€œcheckbook journali… It was a busy day at Gawker Media, which just introduced a new, â€œtieredâ€ commenting system, so I was cutting our conversation short when Denton wrote, â€œOh, one other little thing.â€ Yes? â€œBy bringing back pageview pay, we also open up the possibility of web-style checkbook journalism.â€ By that, he meant paying tipsters for the pageviews generated by posts based on their tips, which is something he briefly tried last year, offering $7.50 per 1,000 views. [...]

By: To grow, Gawker turns its attention to unique users » Nieman Journalism Lab

To grow, Gawker turns its attention to unique users » Nieman Journalism Lab — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:13:37 +0000

[...] turned a lot of heads when it grew advertising revenue by 35 percent while the rest of the industry was imploding. Other media organizations may scoff at some of [...]

By: Assaig sobre mitjans i fotoperiodisme, per David Campbell « Memòries de Brooklyn

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:16:05 +0000

[...] their writing? Would serious investigative journalism compete well in an environment where pageview bonuses (like those at Gawker) were in [...]

By: Scientology Revelations: ‘Presentation Drills,’ Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise’s Audit Sessions [Awesome Things] :: Anything about Everything!

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:47:50 +0000

[...] It’s only a matter of time before this guy tells people what happened in Cruise’s audit sessions. And Marty, if you’re listening, I promise you: we have a very open ear (and wallet). [...]

By: Scientology Revelations: ‘Presentation Drills,’ Beatdown Offerings, and Tom Cruise’s Audit Sessions

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:01:44 +0000

By: Got a #tip? Gawker Media opens tag pages to masses, expecting “chaos” » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:54:58 +0000

[...] tiered commenting system still applies, so only those readers bestowed with stars will have their content immediately [...]

By: With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses … PV online

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:01:56 +0000

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By: With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans “checkbook journalism” « Gawker Media

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:39:39 +0000

[...] to 9. Well, that dire forecast hasn’t quite come to pass — least of all at Gawker Media, where ad revenue in the first half of 2009 was up 35% from the year prior, according to [...]

By: Revolutions in the media economy (1) – the context of crisis | David Campbell -- Photography, Multimedia, Politics

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:48:20 +0000

[...] their writing? Would serious investigative journalism compete well in an environment where pageview bonuses (like those at Gawker) were in [...]

By: Web News and Practical websites » Can Hyperbole Generate $50,000 Corporate Speaking Engagements?

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:36:07 +0000

[...] While most ad supported media is suffering, Gawker’s online gossip rag ad revenues are up 35% year on year. [...]

By: This Week in Search | Search Engine Optimisation

This Week in Search | Search Engine Optimisation — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:48:47 +0000

[...] Checkbook Journalism: Gawker Founder Nick Denton said “We don’t seek to do good. We may inadvertently do good. We may inadvertently commit journalism. That is not the institutional intention.” Whether you agree with Denton’s approach, or the idea of incentivizing writers and news sources with page view compensation, at the very least, Gawker Media’s approach to news is an interesting one. Google’s Microsoft Moment: Just over a week ago, Matt Cutts gave a lengthy response to a great post made by Anil Dash about Google’s culture. And though it remains to be seen whether or not Obama’s antitrust cop, Christine Varney, will pursue antitrust actions against Google, each post offers an interesting perspective on how the present is a critical time for Google to prescribe to their ‘don’t be evil’ mantra. [...]

By: The World Condensed » Blog Archive » Who Says the Web Doesn’t Pay? Gawker Boss Nick Denton Says He’ll Shell Out for Salacious Stories.

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:21:37 +0000

[...] isn’t really a new policy but a revival of an old policy, in an interview yesterday with Nieman Journalism Lab. He’s tried this a couple of times before: Last year he experimented with paying readers [...]

By: TMZ Purchases LeBron Dunk Tape Before We Do [LeBron James] | AthletePoint

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:59:37 +0000

[...] I first received word yesterday that the tape was being shopped around, Lord Denton, in all his checkbook journalismy wisdom, suggested I “put out a bounty on it.” You may recall he did a similar thing back in [...]

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Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:21:27 +0000

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This Week in Search — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

By: Can Hyperbole Generate $50,000 Corporate Speaking Engagements? |

Can Hyperbole Generate $50,000 Corporate Speaking Engagements? | — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:25:32 +0000

[...] While most ad supported media is suffering, Gawker’s online gossip rag ad revenues are up 35% year on year. [...]

By: Crunchbait … or How to Be a Sucker on the Internet

Crunchbait … or How to Be a Sucker on the Internet — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:50:58 +0000

[...] I know for a fact that Techcrunch has traffic quotas, or page view bonuses like Gawker media just re-instituted … no. I do know that Techcrunch dropped federated media and is now running it’s own network. I [...]

By: Linkpost | 7.10.2009 - L&C Tech Talk

Linkpost | 7.10.2009 - L&C Tech Talk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:45:07 +0000

[...] With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans "checkbook journalis… – Nick Denton will start paying his writer based on page views again, and will pay for [...]

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Crunchbait … or How to Be a Sucker on the Internet | seo cloak — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:38:45 +0000

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Crunchbait … or How to Be a Sucker on the Internet | feed hat blog — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:13:15 +0000

By: Can Hyperbole Generate $50,000 Corporate Speaking Engagements? | Search Engine Optimization Professionals ( SEO )

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:02:19 +0000

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By: Crunchbait … or How to Be a Sucker on the Internet

Crunchbait … or How to Be a Sucker on the Internet — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:19:05 +0000

By: Thad McIlroy

Thad McIlroy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:44:08 +0000

I published my displeasure in a blog entry here: http://thefutureofpublishing.com/blog/2009/07/the-return-of-of-pay-for-play-and-checkbook-journalism/

By: Thad McIlroy - Future Of Publishing

Thad McIlroy - Future Of Publishing — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:42:43 +0000

[...] to a report at the reputable Nieman Journalism Lab, Gawker has internally re-introduced the practice of paying bonuses to writers based on [...]