AdAge Interviews Our Publisher, Nick Denton
By Erin Pettigrew on Wed May 20, 2009
No one can better capture the origins, influence, and trajectory of the Gawker Media network than our founder and publisher, Nick Denton:
People — particularly if they're under 40 — have news priorities other than those of the editors of The New York Times or producers of the "NBC Nightly News." A new tablet from Apple — or last night's episode of "Gossip Girl" or the adventures of the hipster grifter — is a bigger deal than the latest petty scandal in Albany. You think that's a damning indictment of modern society and a recipe for idiocracy? Fine. Start a nonprofit to cover all the local-government news you think a healthy society needs. But don't expect advertisers — or commercially-minded publishers or readers, for that matter — to share your interests.
Economic climate and old media traditions be damned. Read more from AdAge.
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