Nick Denton Quotes

Nick Denton — British Journalist born on August 24, 1966,

Nick Denton is a British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com. For years after starting Gawker Media in 2002, Denton ran the company out of his apartment in SoHo... (wikipedia)

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

The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

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

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