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“Gnosis” Explains Why They Hacked Gawker Media Properties
Gawker Media, a network of websites founded by Nick Denton, was hit with a major hack attack over the weekend. A hacker group known as “Gnosis” was responsible for the attack. 4chan was falsely accused of the attack. Gnosis explained why they hacked Gawker.
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Gawker Paid $12,000 For Brett Favre’s Pictures Sent To Jenn Sterger
Gawker Media founder Nick Denton revealed how much that he paid for pictures that NFL Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre sent to Jenn Sterger: $12,000. “I love paying for information,” stated Denton at the Business Insider Ignition conference last week. Deadspin’s traffic increased by millions. The blog post with the pictures have close to 5 million hits so far. [BusinessInsider]
Categories Brett Favre, Gawker Media, Jenn Sterger, Nick Denton
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How does Gawker determine whether it will pay for a scoop?
This is a guest post by Simon Owens, a social media consultant and online journalist. You can read more about him on his blog at Bloggasm.com and follow him on Twitter at @simonowens.
It seems that every time a blog under the Gawker Media banner breaks a major, internet-consuming story — whether it’s an iPhone prototype, nude pictures of Brett Favre, or a first-person account of a 25-year-old’s sleepover with Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell — there’s a certain subset of media critics who focus on Gawker-owner Nick Denton’s payment for the scoop. This despite the fact that paying for stories is a rather common business decision made by dozens of news outlets, including tabloid magazines and even major TV news networks (who pay exorbitant “licensing fees” to gain access to exclusive photos, which almost always result in an exclusive interview as well).
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Categories Gawker, Gawker Media, Jason Chen, Nick Denton
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Jason Chen Case To Determine If Bloggers Are Journalists According To The Law
Here’s a breakdown of what happened at Gizmodo within the last month.
1. Apple engineer Gray Powell left iPhone prototype at the bar on his 27th birthday night.
2. Drunk guy tells another anonymous guy that he left his iPhone behind and gave it to him.
3. Anonymous guy takes the phone home and turns on the device, notices errors with the camera. When anonymous guy tried to turn on the iPhone the next day, it was bricked through MobileMe–someone killed the iPhone remotely.
4. Anonymous guy opens the iPhone 3GS and inside he finds an iPhone that is supposed to be released in the future.
5. Anonymous guy attempted to call Apple HQ and return the device, but kept getting blown off.
6. Gizmodo gets their hands on the device at the cost of $5,000.
7. Gizmodo writes a few posts about the new device (resulting in millions of extra website hits), then sends the device back to Apple.
8. Police raid the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen. The police took his computers, two servers, an iPad, an iPhone, hard drives, and several other devices.
Was the device confiscation legal? That question can be answered if “bloggers” can be considered “journalists” according to the law
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Categories Apple Inc., Gizmodo, Gray Powell, Jason Chen, Nick Denton
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Nick Denton Says Leaking New iPhone Details On Gizmodo Did Not Make Extra Profit
A story written by Gizmodo editors Jason Chen and Jesus Diaz about the new iPhone has hit about 8 million views, 9,000+ diggs, 35,000+ retweets, etc. You figure Gizmodo brought in a lot of extra money for parent company Gawker Media and the company founder Nick Denton. However Denton admitted that breaking the news about the new iPhone did not make him any extra money. To buy the iPhone from the thief, Gawker paid $5,000. On top of that there was $7,000 in extra bandwidth for the servers. Chen and Diaz will most likely be paid for traffic bonuses too. And lastly are “whatever legal bills we end up paying,” said Denton. [DailyFinance]
Categories Apple iPhone, Gawker Media, Gizmodo, iPhone, Nick Denton
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Defamer Emulates Valleywag’s Fate; Folds Into Gawker
Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media has decided to fold Defamer into Gawker.com in order to assimilate to a struggling economy. This past December, it was rumored that Defamer was up for sale, but I suppose that there wasn’t any good enough offers. Defamer will simply become part of Gawker’s entertainment section.
Defamer.com will still remain open but their posts will feed into Gawker’s feed. Gabrie Snyder, Gawker’s managing editor will oversee the transition. Defamer is about four years old. Gawker brings in about 3 million visitors per month. This is four times the number that they were receiving a year ago.
Defamer writers Seth, Stu, and Kyle will be out of a job at Gawker, but the company is now hiring a Hollywood gossip writer. This past November, Valleywag was also rolled into Gawker.
[via NickDenton.org, Defamer]
Categories Defamer, Gawker Media, Nick Denton
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