![]() ![]() Yes, in part that’s been driven by the outing of celebrities like Anderson Cooper, something I’m proud to say we played a part in, but more of it is just in the self-outing of people’s friends through party photographs, through the random indiscretion on Facebook that makes it actually increasingly difficult for people to maintain secrets. Take attitudes towards gay sex and gay relationships. Because so many of those photographs have been published (in social media), it’s been normalized in a way. An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions. #GAWKER DENTON PROFESSIONAL#… Ten years ago, people maintained very different private and professional personas. We evaluate and report.ĭenton: Just once in a while, I think it’s worthwhile to take stock and recognize that the supposed invasion of privacy has incredibly positive effects on society. Our standards for getting it right are different from larger, more established institutions, and we do not just throw out every tip that we get on the site. That is still important to me and to everyone we work with. #GAWKER DENTON FREE#THR: What have you learned along the way?ĭenton: We’ve removed a lot of obstacles to free journalism and yet -Ĭook: There is still the desire to be right. We’re just going to share with you as we would share with our colleagues what we have. But actually, now I think the larger factor is a journalist’s desire for respectability - not wanting to expose themselves, not wanting to say, “Hey we’ve heard this, we’re not completely sure whether it’s true.” People are talking about this. THR: Do you think journalists censor themselves?ĭenton: Well, I used to think it had to do with legal reasons and people being too fearful of libel. The basic concept was two journalists in a bar telling each other a story that’s much more interesting than whatever hits the papers the next day. THR: When you started Gawker, did you have an idea that you were going to change things?ĭenton: Yeah. Also joining the conversation was Gawker editor John Cook. ![]() We recently spoke to Denton about a decade worth of living on the edge online. But overall, Denton is unrepentant and argues an unconventional point of view on privacy that surely will keep the Hollywood legal community busy in the years to come. See what he has to say about a Lena Dunham book proposal below. That was the amazing dream and a lot of it has been realized.Denton occasionally will admit to having made a judgment error. “The initial idea, which motivated me, was the idea that you can reach out, find your own kind, learn things, get deep into some forum, and get information on this thing you never knew anyone else was interested in apart from yourself. “There’s a story to be written about the arc of the internet,” Denton said during a public conversation at Quartz’s New York headquarters on Oct. (The tell-all would be called One to Zero though, he jokes.) Instead, Denton is busy filing appeals and holding out hope-for the internet, humanity, and their ability to save each other from… each other. But Denton says he’s happy with Univision’s purchase of his former empire (since renamed Gizmodo Media), and has no Peter Thiel revenge plots in the works. Gawker Media founder Nick Denton might be forgiven some post-ordeal cynicism: He was recently forced into personal bankruptcy by a Silicon Valley billionaire bankrolling a lawsuit by former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan over a sex tape. ![]()
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