List of Nick Denton Quotes

Ben Smith's Quick-hit Campaign 'scoops' Are About As Viral As Cat Videos. That Fits With Buzzfeed.

Web Media Needs To Move To Tv Metaphor - With Full-screen Imagery And Other Content Interrupted With Full-screen Ads.

We Believe That The Best Web Content Optimization Strategy Is Something As Old As Journalism Itself: The Shocking Truth And The Authentic Opinion.

Superior Writers, Videographers And Other Content Makers Want To Work With Their Own Kind And For Their Own Kind.

Jonah Peretti Is One Of The Smartest Web Publishers Out There. And Buzzfeed Is An Aggressive And Dynamic Company.

I Want To Institutionalise And Automate Chequebook Journalism.

Publishing Should Be A Collaboration Between Authors And Their Smartest Readers - And At Some Point The Distinction Should Become Meaningless.

That's Always Been My Test For What Makes A Story: Is This Something Journalists Would Gossip With Each Other About?

As A Print Journalist, If You Hear A Rumour You Try To Stand It Up And If You Can't, The Story Dies. With A Blog You Can Throw The Rumour Out There And Ask For Help. You Can Say: 'we Don't Know If This Is True Or Not.

Critics Say Internet Advertising Suffers From Limitless Inventory, Which Depresses Prices. These Exclusive Front-page Sponsorships Are Not Limitless. If Hbo Doesn't Move Quickly Enough, Showtime Can Buy Out Gawker And Jezebel For The Key Fall Tv Season. On Any Individual Day, There Isn't Room For Both Of Them; And That's Healthy.

Google And Others Truncate Headlines At 70 Characters. On The Manti Teo Story, Deadspin's Scoop Fell Down The Google Search Results, Overtaken By Copycat Stories With Simpler Headlines. Deadspin's Headline Was 118 Characters. Vital Information - 'hoax' - Was One Of The Words That Was Cut Off.

Henry Blodget Does Occasionally Have A New Idea. If You're Making A Point About Aggregation Or The Emptiness Of Modern Journalism, He's Far From The Best Target. Try Huffpo - Or Gawker Writers Whose Souls Have Been Corroded By Irony.