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Gawker Media
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gawker Media is an American online media
company and blog network, founded and owned by
Nick Denton basedin New York City. It is considered
lll to b" one of the most visible and successfulblogoriented media companies.As of March 2010, it is the
parent company for 11 different weblogs:
Gawker.com,Fleshbot,Deadspin,Lifehacker,
Gizmodo, io9, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel,Gawker.tv,
and Cityfile. All Gawker articles are licensedon a
Creative Commons attribution-NonCommercial
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Nick Denton (Publisher)
Remy Stern(Gawker.com)
Adam Pash(Lifehacker)
Will Leitch (Deadspin)
(Kotaku)
Brian Crecente
Jessica
Coen(Jezebel)
AnnaleeNewitz (io9)
Ray Wert (Jalopnik)
JoeBrown (Gizmodo)
Lux Alptraum (Fleshbot)
Launched
Revenueand traffic
January2003
Current
status
Active
While Denton does not go into detail over Gawker
Media's finances, he has downplayed the profit potential of blogstal,declaring that "[b]logs are likely to
be better for readersthan for capitalists. While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the
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FromWikipediathefreeencyclopedia
Fleshbot is a sex-oriented
weblog, publishedby Gawker
Media. It was launchedin November2003 as the third
online title from Gawker.The rangeof subjectmatter
includeseverythingfrom amateursex blogs and
thumbnail gallery poststo news about sex in popular
culture and advertising.The blog coversboth
heterosexual homosexual
and
eroticatll and usershave
the ability to filter betweenthe two if they choose.
Fleshbot
Fleshbotis editedby Lux Alptraum (formerly Lux
Nightmare).
Fleshbotappears the ACMA Blacklist (seeInternet
on
censorship Australia) that was released Wikileaks
in
via
on March 20,2009.P1
Fleshbot front page
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