The End of An Era: Jessica Coen Leaving Gawker
We hop on a train, and by the time we get off, Jessica Coen’s time at Gawker is done. Starting to understand why more people don’t go Amtrak.
Full J-Co retrospective to follow, after we dust off a few old Billy Joel records and collect our thoughts.
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on September 29, 2006 at 9:44 am Nathan wrote:
It’s been said, but let it be said again: Gawker has been completely worthless since Choire Sicha left. Coen’s arbitrary insults seemed like the frustration of someone who’d been hired as a wit and was then indignant that the title required actual effort. Can anyone point me to one single clever remark she made in her entire tenure?
I’m still baffled how she got the job. Her personal blog was utterly anonymous, indifferent, forgettable. Christ, it barely contained any posts.
on September 29, 2006 at 11:23 am Steve wrote:
Where is she going? Anyone know?
on September 29, 2006 at 4:16 pm Than wrote:
she’s leaving for a deputy online editor spot for Vanity Fair.com.
I wonder if that will cut her growing status as a tv pundit. I also wonder if she’s already offended any of the wrong conde nast folk.
on September 29, 2006 at 5:27 pm blahdi wrote:
You’re right Nathan. Vanity Fair is a tiny publication that only hires really stupid people. Of course they’d offer her a job.
on September 29, 2006 at 10:42 pm Nathan wrote:
Hm, blahdi. As a Coen fan, you realize that Gawker, under her, has never been more than utterly dismissive of VF? And I’ll add that Denton essentially demoted her in the recent shakeup, she probably saw the writing on the wall and began looking elsewhere, and therefore your point sucks. Doo-doo head.
on October 1, 2006 at 9:52 pm malatron wrote:
It’s always interesting when someone is slagging off another with determination, making all these notes about how much someone’s writing sux, how much they don’t or haven’t or can’t do this or that in regards to a task. Interesting because the person doing the slagging here won’t or can’t acknowledge the value of an avid readership. That regardless of whether or not Jessica Coen was deserving of a blue ribbon for her tenure, Nathan was apparently, astutely chronicling her tenure at both Gawker and her own blog. Why you might have been reading notwithstanding, you were reading, and with an appetite for seconds. That counts for a lot Nathan.