All entries tagged: Jezebel
Got a #tip? Gawker Media opens tag pages to masses, expecting “chaos”
Gawker Media is unveiling an innovative and unruly twist on traditional reader forums this morning. The new feature, part of an otherwise modest redesign across the company’s nine blogs, could transform tag pages, typically little more than archives of old posts, into commenter free-for-alls and transparent tip lines.
Readers are now greeted with a text box [...]
With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans “checkbook journalism”
Eight months ago, Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton was predicting a 40-percent drop in U.S. advertising and paring back accordingly: He laid off 19 writers and, by selling some blogs and consolidating others, shrank his blogging empire from 13 titles to 9. Well, that dire forecast hasn’t quite come to pass — least of all [...]
