Gawker has had a reasonably friendly rivalry with Bruce Wasserstein's New York magazine. At least three former editors of this site—Elizabeth Spiers, Jesse Oxfeld and Jessica Coen—have found refuge there after their sentence in the blogging mines. This history makes the latest audience numbers from Compete.com particularly satisfying. In September, gawker.com alone—not including any sibling sites—drew level with New York's nymag.com.
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Gawker Draws Level With New York Magazine [About]
Posted: October 13th, 2008, 11:14am CDT by Nick Denton
Tags: about
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Ethan Hawke's Banana: Todd Barry on Gawker [All About Us]
Posted: July 15th, 2008, 3:27pm CDT by Richard
Tags: all about US
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Comedian Todd Barry makes jokes about Gawker! Specifically, every uppity celebrity's favorite fantasy feature, the Gawker Stalker map. The joke is something about Ethan Hawke and bananas but I got distracted and don't remember it exactly (luckily the audio is above). He also recounts how he asked some fans to inundate our Stalker line, George Clooney style, with hundreds of Barry sightings. He asked that the phrase "easy on the eyes" be used. Unfortunately, it didn't happen.
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Six Months Later [About]
Posted: July 1st, 2008, 5:22pm CDT by Nick Denton
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Without any breakout story, Gawker's pageviews last month were 16.7m. That's 108% ahead of the level at the end of last year. But now comes that slow-news time of year that—in ancestral Hungary—they call the cucumber season.
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Once Useful Creature Refuses To Allow Technological Replacement To Faze Her [Open Caption]
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:00am CDT by Richard
Tags: its a joke about horseless
["Sex and the City" actress Sarah Jessica Parker at the Berlin premiere of the film yesterday; image via Splash]
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Traffic [Housekeeping]
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:51am CDT by Nick Denton
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Thank you, Sue Simmons and Bill O'Reilly.
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Jon Friedman Also Misses 'George' [Magazines]
Posted: March 14th, 2008, 12:31pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: and what about scarecrows brain
MarketWatch media guru Jon Friedman wants to know why you kids aren't reading three of his favorite magazines anymore: U.S. News & World Report, The Sporting News, and Fast Company. We want to know whatever happened to Collier's Weekly! And where's our new issue of The American Mercury? [MarketWatch]
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Pot, Kettle, Black
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:53pm CDT by Phil
Tags: about Egotastic
I don't usually respond to childish, passive aggressive behaviour, and I don't like fanning the flames of inane online bitch wars, but this time, I'm not going to sit with my thumbs up my ass, no matter how good it...
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The Revolving Door [Housekeeping]
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:24pm CST by Nick Denton
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Time, belatedly, to update the Gawker masthead: Ryan Tate and Hamilton Nolan, bylines you've seen for the last few weeks, are joining the team. (Ryan is pictured below, and Hamilton above.) Ryan, who is based on the West Coast, will cover the overnight shift. He was a reporter for the boring San Francisco Business Times, but he has a wicked side: Ryan used to comment under the pen-name "Sid Hudgens", which is how he came to my attention. Suedehead Hamilton Nolan, formerly with PR Week, is now Gawker's advertising and public relations reporter. The publicists are already trembling. One departure: Maggie Shnayerson, whose coverage of the Viacom freelancer revolt put Gawker in an unusual role, instigator of one of the most successful labor campaigns of recent years, according to the The Nation. Positions still open include nightlife and media reporters. Email me.
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Did You Know? [Housekeeping]
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 5:23pm CST by Nick Denton
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You can view today's most popular stories, at gawker.com/popular. They include items from earlier in the week which are getting belated recognition, such as Alex Pareene's history of terrible CNN headlines.
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Writer's Strike Hurts Amy Winehouse, Confuses John Malkovich [Shoplifters Of The World Unite]
Posted: November 5th, 2007, 12:12pm CST
Tags: feeling sentimental about the wobblies
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The rage of the creative underclass has bubbled over 1930s-style on the streets of New York and LA—the Writers Guild of America is on strike! Josh Brolin is sympathetic and John Malkovich, according to "Early Today," doesn't really know why they're asking him about it! Tina Fey is picketing! She will come up with no more funny-the-first-time-you-hear-them catch phrases until her demands are met! But how will this affect you? It looks like you and your stoned slacker friends may have to learn about the scary outside world via real news instead of the hilarious scripted "fake" kind that is so popular these days with the Generation X.The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are both going to repeats—though Jon Stewart has offered to pay two weeks of writer's salaries himself—and poor Amy Winehouse, the real victim in all this, will probably not be making her SNL debut this week, and no one seems clear on what Letterman will be doing, least of all Dave Letterman.
So now's your opportunity to do some scabbing, struggling unethical would-be writers of New York! Hop down to the real 30 Rock and make up some funny things for Tracy Morgan to say!
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About A Weird Promotion: Nick Hornby Wants to Save You a Dollar On Your Next Munchies Purchase
Posted: October 24th, 2007, 11:55am CDT
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Lazy-student-targeting fast food delivery site Campusfood.com is offering a huge $1 dollar-off promotion for the latest probably readable-but-kinda-crappy film adaptation-ready Nick Hornby novel. It's called SLAM and it's about teenage parenthood and, uh, Tony Hawk. If you and like 40 friends order soon you'll save enough to get yourselves some Plan B!
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Gimme More: A Fragrance For The Tearful Ranting Britney Fan In You
Posted: September 11th, 2007, 4:23pm CDT
Tags: all you people Care about
What if the auteur behind the "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE" video had his own scent? The ads for it might be like this. By the way, here's a profile of Chris Crocker, who is that the overly-emotional Britney fan that's going to be the most-watched thing on YouTube today. [Via Cheek Beauty] -
Stalk Of The Town: It's Raining (Men)
Posted: August 8th, 2007, 1:10pm CDT
Tags: everyone talks about the weather
The date: August 7th
The time: 3:50 p.m.
The place: Eighth Avenue at 26th street
Sighted: "Just saw weather-queen SAM CHAMPION on Eighth Avenue, looking very "refreshed"—so much so that I wasn't sure it was him until I was up close. He was looking at the windows of The Blue porn store as he walked by."
It goes without saying that no one can predict the weather. And in the face of 60% chance of showers, possible scattered thunderstorms and partial cloudiness, America needs a weatherman who is consistent—consistently good looking, that is. Enter Sam Champion, who has, for nearly 20 years, fabricated the weather and looked damn good doing it.
As the predicament of the polar ice caps has become increasingly dire, the need for better-looking weathermen has grown exponentially. With the extinction of "mild and sunny" weekends, Al Roker soon realized he could no longer get away with pounding doughnuts, and therefore stepped up his game with gastric bypass. And with hopes dashed for the white Christmas he is always yapping about, Bill Evans (who is Jewish, naturally) kicked shit into high gear with a new set of hairplugs.
Indeed, though 2007 went on record as the year with the most "x-treme" weather, instead of demoting Sam, WABC instead promoted him from AccuWeather weatherboy to Good Morning America Meteorologist, despite the fact that he did absolutely nothing to stop Hurricane Katrina or the tsunami that nearly took the life of Petra Nemcova. WABC did not even dispatch Sam to the scene of those natural disasters, preferring to send uglier and more overweight correspondents, ones whose faces could be spared if nature should again attack.
Thus it comes as no surprise that this morning, while millions of commuters were squashed on broken trains and seconds away from punching the people next to them, Sam Champion prepared New Yorkers for the upcoming storm the best way he knew how—with a pre-storm trip to Dr. Zizmor, and a cruise through Chelsea with his blepharoplasty down. Streets may explode, bridges collapse and levees break, but America can take comfort in the fact that Sam's gorgeous face is staying put.
Previously: Geraldo Rivera Protects And Serves
