IdolatorWatch: Is This One of Your Editors?
S-s-s-s-something from the comments (of this post):
a friend of works with a girl named maura johsnton (she of maura.com and various online entities)….apparently she’s leaving MLB advanced media’s Rehearsals.com division to work for this new gawker music blog.
Is it true? Well, they posted it in our comments, so thus it simply HAS to be true, right?
Looking at her bio, Maura has written for the likes of Blender, Flavorpill, and the Vancouver Sun (so she’s got more mainstream writing experience than at least one Gawker hire we know of — whatever that’s worth).
For all the indie kids — if you’re wondering what her taste in music is like, you can peruse her Last.fm profile to see what she’s been listening to. Judging by her playlist alone, we can look forward to stories on The Mountain Goats, Christina Aguilera, Scritti Politti, and 1990’s “supergroup” Mother Love Bone. All of whom have been desperately lacking coverage (especially together) in the blogosphere for too long.
Maura dot com [official site]
Previously: Sampling Gawker’s New Music Blog
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on August 31, 2006 at 5:28 pm Steve wrote:
Personally I think they made a mistake in hiring her. Someone who has already written for Gawker (ie. me) would be a much better fit.
on August 31, 2006 at 10:35 pm Michael Hampton wrote:
Yes, but does your experience writing about monkeys with guns, Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot sightings, and stupid Floridians really qualify you to write for Gawker?… hm, nevermind.