Tag Archives: Gawker

Gawker Buys Into ‘Commerce Journalism’

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

New name, same old game: Turning news into newsvertising. Via the International Business Times: Gawker Media Hopes To Spur E-Commerce Revenue With ‘Commerce Journalism,’ Says Nick Denton “Your beat is helping readers buy things,” Gawker’s new job description reads. The ethical … Continue reading →

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BuzzFeed Makes Branded Content Even Sneakier

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

From our Native Advertising Goes Ever More Native desk  Lately the hardtracking staff has tried to be on branded content like Brown on Williamson, but as fast as we can write them up, the journo-marketing complex has gotten more, well, complex. Among … Continue reading →

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Walmart-inet Poses As Reporter

Posted on June 16, 2012 by

Maybe we should call it Walmole. First the predatory retailer had a fake blogger “Walmarting Across America” to proclaim that every Walmart employee “absolutely loves to work at the store.” Now comes “Zoe Mitchell” (via Jim Romenesko): PR WOMAN WORKING FOR WALMART POSES … Continue reading →

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More Marketing Sleaze From Ashton Kutcher

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Ashton Kutcher is still not sweating the details. Last month the newly minted “Two and a Half Men” star was called a massive media whore by Gawker (the massive media pimp) for conflicts of interest regarding a special online issue of Details that he edited, in which … Continue reading →

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WeinerWorld: New York Tabloids Edition (VII)

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

Mostly quiet on the dead-tree front, with only today’s Post roasting the Weiner: But now that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Twitter) is about to resign, the websites are all, well, atwitter. For obvious reasons, the Post has honors: New York Daily … Continue reading →

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The NYTPicker Held Hostage, Day 44

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

So what’s the deal with The NYTPicker, the website that describes itself thusly: This website devotes itself exclusively to the goings-on inside the New York Times — the newspaper and the institution itself. Written by a team of journalists who … Continue reading →

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To No Trump

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

Awkwarddd! Seems Jared Kushner, publisher of the snarkerazzi New York Observer, is Donald Trump’s son-in-law (via Ivanka), which snarkerazzi website Gawker has been eager to point out. Pouty fathead Donald Trump is a tailor-made character for the New York Observer, which purports to … Continue reading →

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Piers Morgan And Keith Olbermann Have A Tweet Tooth

Posted on December 31, 2010 by

Some high-profile Twitterholics out there right now. Start with Gawker’s piece (via mediabistro) about CNN’s Larry King Livelier, Piers Morgan. CNN’s Piers Morgan Will Fight Almost Anyone on Twitter Are you bored? Try tweeting something mean at Piers Morgan, the British … Continue reading →

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WSJ Wants Not Neutrality

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

The Wall Street Journal’s campaign against net neutrality started in earnest last April with a question from op-ed columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.: End of the Net Neut Fetish? Hooray. We live in a nation of laws and elected leaders, … Continue reading →

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New York Times Public Forgetitor

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

The New York Times is the current selection in the news media’s Plagiarist of the Month Club, a dis-honorific that Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt addresses in his column this week, headlined “Journalistic Shoplifting.” The back-story, as deconstructed by Hoyt: … Continue reading →

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