Nick Denton Quotes

United Kingdom, Entrepreneur
August 24, 1966

Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton is a British Internet entrepreneur, journalist and blogger, the founder and former proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and was the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com, until a lawsuit by Terry Bollea bankrupted the company. For years after starting Gawker Media in 2002, Denton ran the company out of his apartment in SoHo.

Also known as Journalist, Blogger, Editor

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

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- Book
- Journalism
- Automate
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My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

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The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.

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- History
- Comments
- Sites
While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

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- Businesses
- Medium
- Blogs
As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'

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- True
- Help
- Blog
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

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- Truth
- Opinion
- Strategy
Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

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- Work
- Writers
- Content

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

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- Media
- Content
- Metaphor
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

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- Story
- Gossip
- Test
Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

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- Bad
- Soul
- Traffic