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About

Nick Denton is a former newspaper financial journalist who moved to the online world during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and has made a success of web-based publishing using the traditional ad-supported model.

His Gawker Media Inc. online publishing group puts out web-only blog titles on pop-culture topics such as Gizmodo, Fleshbot and the politic-gossip Gawker. He is also the backer of the Lafayette Project, a service which aims to automatically aggregate the best of weblog writing.

Denton has been involved in internet media since 1996, first writing on the subject for the Financial Times of London, and then founding two companies in the late 1990s.

First Tuesday, an internet-era events business with branches in 80 cities, was sold in 2000.
Moreover Technologies, which is headquartered in London, provides news search technology to Fortune 500 companies and portals such as MSN and started as a web syndication service.

After graduating from Oxford University, Nick began his career as a foreign correspondent for the FT during the revolutions in eastern Europe. Later, while investment banking correspondent, he co-authored All That Glitters, the definitive account of the collapse of Barings Bank.

Denton''s own blogsite carries a brief bio.

FROM http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/0205/news/denton_blogs.html
: "Gawker Media specializes in producing what are termed "sexy" blogs that appeal to 20 and 30-somethings in the U.S. and abroad. The blogs have received world-wide attention and recently received seven nominations in the 2005 Bloggies, an internet-based blog award. Denton''s websites have been nominated for Best American Weblog (Wonkette), Best Entertainment Weblog (Defamer), Best Weblog About Politics (Wonkette) Best Computer/Technology Weblog (Gizmodo), Best New Weblog (Defamer), and Weblog of the Year (Gawker, Wonkette)."

An interview with Gawker''s editor as of May, 2005 is here.

"Nick Denton applies the same formula to every blog he launches: find a niche topic with broad appeal to young men, recruit a talented and crass young writer who''s in it as much for the exposure as the paycheck, come up with an irresistible title, promote (and cross-promote) like hell, and wait for advertisers to call."
JULY 6, 2004 INTERVIEW WITH NICK DENTON: from at the ClickZ Network