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Nick Denton, born on August 24, 1966, is a renowned journalist. He is best known for founding the online news website 'The Gawker', which gained widespread attention for its bold investigative reporting and satirical style.

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“No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.”

People Believe Stories Order Evidence These Days Visuals

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“It's harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the fear that maybe somebody deep-pocketed, you know, with limited resources is going to come after us and can my organization afford to defend me?”

Knows Mind Stories Resources Organization Harder Journalist Peter Billionaire Limited Resources

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“An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.”

Would Be Decision Party Influence College Fool Employers Hiring

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“Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.”

Fit Cat Campaigns Video Viral

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“I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.”

Want Journalism

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“Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.”

Lying Forget Party Blogs Resumes

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“Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.”

Want Kind Superiors Makers

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“We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.”

Believe Opinion Strategy Journalism Shocking Optimization Web Content

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

Needs Moving Media Tvs Metaphor Screens Ads Imagery Interrupted

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“Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.”

Soul Cynical Traffic Relentless

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“While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.”

Values Mediums Skeptical Blogs

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“Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.”

Should Reader Distinction Collaboration Meaningless Publishing

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“Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.”

Writing Company Pieces Meaningless Apps Digital Media

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“Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.”

Book Beautiful Products Apples Collections Iphone Macs Ipads

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“Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.”

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“I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.”

Mind Character Monsters Tabloids Old Movie Mind Playing

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“Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.”

Company Aggressive Publishers Jonah

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“Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.”

Want Should Media

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“Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.”

Stories Found Interesting Bars Journalist Print Most Interesting Hacks Interesting Stories

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

Stories Tests Journalist Gossip

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Trying Helping Stories Dies Asks Journalist Print Blogs Rumours

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“Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.”

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“Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.”

Character Stories Results Cutting Information Google Headlines Hoaxes Copycats Google Search

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“Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.”

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“I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.”

States Social Term Responsibility Company Europe Expected Social Responsibility Provinces American Business Paternalism

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“I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.”

People Ifs Thinking Used Media Ought Internet Cost Lows Wake Up Traditional Journalist Pushing Waking Immediacy

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Born: August 24, 1966
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