Nick Denton: Always keepin things on the DL
I believe it was just 2 days ago when I decided to IM Nick Denton to ask him what was going on in his world. I was going to start putting out an article every Monday that featured A-listers and what they have been up to. I often wonder what some of them are up to from time to time. Nick basically told me that he was trying to keep a “low profile.” I agreed that keeping a low profile was a good thing.
After Nick told me something that pointed me in the direction of talking to Andrew Krucoff, (which I didn’t do) I left Nick alone and wished him a warm and good day, (because I am so nice and polite.)
Much to my surprise this morning, I was reading my daily cup of Page Six in the New York Post. Well if the Gossip fairy didn’t just slap me in the face, wouldn’t you know I see Nick Denton in there. Now, I’m not saying that Nick wasn’t honest with me when he told me he was trying to keep a ‘low profile’, but come on, Page Six? Nick, you live in New York, keeping a low profile does not include Page Six knowing your business.
So as I am reading I find out some very interesting news about what Mr. Denton has been up to! From the [source]:
JUST in time for the blogger backlash from articles in New York magazine and the Financial Times, the mastermind behind New York-based Gawker and L.A.-based Defamer is shopping proposals for two new guidebooks flaunting the Web sites’ names.
A reliable source says that Nick Denton, who owns all the Gawker-linked sites, is peddling a two-book proposal for “Gawker’s Guide to New York” and “Defamer’s Guide to Los Angeles,” and asking for an “astronomical sum.” True to form, Denton intends to contract out the writing to cheap freelancers instead of using his overworked editorial slaves
HA! That’s all I have to say about that…..
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on February 22, 2006 at 1:45 pm Tara wrote:
That sucks Nat, you should have had the scoop, but it shows you are a good reporter by uncovering his “news” so quickly in Page Six and it’s not like you didn’t try to get him to spill it.
on February 22, 2006 at 6:59 pm Randall wrote:
Hey,
Respectfully, I don’t think you’re a reporter unless you actually get the scoop. Finding it in page six, or finding press releases quickly (in my case) isn’t really a measure of journalism, it’s more a measure of research skills. True journalists (what the word reporter should mean) get the scoop first. I’m definetely not one, and most bloggers aren’t, but I’d be more conservative where I give my “reporter props.”
on February 23, 2006 at 1:35 am Anthony wrote:
I can’t be the only person who thinks that it’s slightly ironic that someone who derives his income from gossip blogs doesn’t want to be being featured on a blog gossip blog.
on February 24, 2006 at 5:57 pm Urkit wrote:
Nick Denton to Become a Book Publisher?
Blogebrity reports on two of Nick Denton’s Gawker titles possibly coming to a bookstore near you….