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Re: Nick Denton: Master of deception

bluelines — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:31:47 -0000

The Jeremy Wright memo is just begging for a Valleywag "100-word version" treatment. Something like: "for every post you write, we currently lose money; we've figured out that if we pay you less we might make money."

Re: Nick Denton: Master of deception

PKafka — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:50:28 -0000

But that's not odd. Nick still laid off 19 people! It'd be one thing if he was moving people from title to another - something I thought he'd be doing. But the three people at Valleywag, the tk people at Defamer, etc, etc are out of work.

Re: Nick Denton: Master of deception

mathewi — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:40:20 -0000

That's totally true, Peter -- I'm not saying your headline was wrong. I just thought it was odd that everyone focused on the firing rather than the hiring.

Re: Nick Denton: Master of deception

PKafka — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:17:58 -0000

Hey Mathew. We're crossing lots of streams today! Re: My headline - Nick fired 19 people. The fact that he hired 10 more doesn't change the fact that he canned 19.

Re: Nick Denton: Master of deception

mathewi — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:23:52 -0000

I think you're quite right, Dave, that does seem to be the model. And what the heck -- it seems to be working too -)

Re: Nick Denton: Master of deception

digidave — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:33:06 -0000

Fact is: I think Gawker media has a high turn-over rate - I think that's Denton's secret.

Hire new blogger - starry-eyed and eager.
Work them to death
Fire them - let them fend for themselves having trained them in how to do gossip.
Hire new blogger.
Rinse and repeat.