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big questions
OMG You Guys, What Are Jon and Kate Gonna Say On Monday??
We'd like to avoid this story as much as possible, because mostly it's just gross, but this is TOO BIG to pass up! Jon & Kate from hit reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8 are making a major announcement.
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New Kid In School
[The Title Of Your Introduction Post Goes Here]
Hello there! I'm Foster, and I'll be your camp counselor for the weekend. More »
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announcements
Unnaturally-Faced Woman Naturally Pregnant
Cosmetic surgery-enthusiast and grandstanding parent of a baby born through a surrogate Alex Kuczynski is with child. She's due in April. That ought to give her enough time to come up with a story angle.
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television
Eighties-Set Gossip Girl Spin-Off Is a Go
The rumored Lily van der Woodsen as a teen Gossip Girl spin-off is going to happen. It will be set in Los Angeles in the 80's, at "the height of the Valley Girl craze." More »
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happy things
Couple Who Met Through Gawker Commenting Get Engaged
The winter may be bleak and cold, but at least we have this story to warm our hearts. We've had our first Gawker Commenter engagement! Well, OK, he was a Deadspin commenter. But still! More »
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goodbye
Sometimes, the Best Decisions Are the Ones That Are Made for You
Here's my last round of layoff horror stories: my own! So, let me just say, as I eeeease out of the office: About a month ago, worried for some reason I couldn't place... More »
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Announcements
Anderson Cooper Comes Out of the Closet... About His 'Real Housewives' Addiction
"Honey, I don't even know where to begin with NeNe!" says Anderson Cooper, and we don't know where to begin with this clip, in which the newsman throws some serious shade on Ellen DeGeneres for not watching his favorite guilty pleasure, Real Housewives of Atlanta. Yes, when not globetrotting in Kosovo, interviewing Katrina evacuees, or organizing his closet of medium-size black t-shirts (by frequency of use, natch), the Coop is a reality television devotee. Still, even his love for Dancing with the Stars is eclipsed by his obsession with Real Housewives. Something's gotta fill the void until season two of Living Lohan! Clip above. -
introductions
Good morning to you, the loyal Defamer reader. A few quick administrative notes to share with you on this Monday morning. First off, Seth is taking a well-deserved vacation this week; while we're all going to miss him, we're happy to announce that Amy Kaufman has agreed to join us for the next two days in a guest blogger capacity. For those of you that are unfamiliar, here's a quick bio. More » -
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announcements
New York Founding Editor Clay Felker To Be Memorialized This Evening
You're invited, space permitting, to a memorial service this evening for the beloved New York magazine founding editor Clay Felker. It's at the New York Society for Ethical Culture and starts at six. Tom Wolfe, Gloria Steinem and Lesley Stahl will pay tribute to the man who taught a city to talk about itself at a celebration organized by New York and Gail Sheehy, the writer and widow of the late editor. Felker's legacy, which Wolfe in July described as nothing less than the restoration of vitality to a bloodless, disconnected New York media, is also honored less directly today in New York's excellent issue on the Great Shakeout. -
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Announcements
Hey, you like reading email, don't you? It sure beats walking out to the mailbox once a day, doesn't it? Well, if you like email as much as we like email, have we got an offer for you! We're excited to announce that Defamer has launched a once-a-week email alert that will enable you to receive a simple communique that contains a brief summary and links to our Top 5 Most Popular Stories of the week. The email only goes out 1x per week, on Fridays, so we promise that your inbox will not be deluged with Defamer spam. Another bonus for signing up? In the case of BREAKING! and/or DEVELOPING! news, we'll alert you straightaway via the same channel. We are applying the Spiderman Principle of "with great power comes great responsibility" to our email communications, so if you see a Defamer email sitting in your inbox, you'll know its totally worthwhile (unfortch, the same could not be said for Spiderman 3). If you would like to sign up, simply enter your email address into the box that's sitting in the left-hand sidebar underneath the hed "Subscribe To Defamer." Give it a whirl, won't ya? -
introductions
We've got two quick announcements to lead the day. And no, neither of them have anything to do with April Fool's Day (we tend to defer to Ashton Kutcher when it comes to pranking, punk'ing and pap'ing). First things first, Seth is taking a much deserved and long overdue vacation and will be gone for the next two weeks. While we're not entirely sure where he went, we have it on good authority that he's gone south of the equator in an attempt to infiltrate X17's secret island paparazzo boot camp. Fingers crossed that all of his covert training paid off! More » -
week in review
The Week of 1,000 Whores
- Announcement: Author, former Page Six-er, Gawker gadfly, and noted fighter (just like Hillary!) Ian Spiegelman will be taking on Gawker's weekend shift, starting tomorrow. It should be a trip.
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announcements
Defamer Welcomes Stu VanAirsdale As The Newest Member Of Our Editorial Team
We'd love to begin this lovely Monday morning not by pounding a pitcher full of green beer (that will follow in a few minutes), but rather by introducing the newest member of the Defamer editorial team. We are thrilled to announce that S.T. VanAirsdale is joining our ranks in the position of Senior Editor, where he will be helping us round out our coverage of the movie industry that we all love and loathe in equal measure. Stu is a both a well-respected and well-heeled veteran of the world of film criticism and industry analysis, having his work published by Vanity Fair, The New York Times, New York Magazine and, of course, the The Reeler. We are tremendously excited to have both his biting wit and extensive experience on the team, and we are confident that you will quickly grow to love him as much as we do. So, with that, everyone please give a warm welcome to Stu! Now, on with the show... -
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Big Fat Italian Wedding
James Gandolfini is now engaged to longtime goomar Deborah Lin. No word yet on when they'll be rattling the windows and tearing the house down in preparation for their separation. -
promotions
'Times' PR Queen Catherine Mathis Promoted, Will Now Take Over World
Guess what? New York Times flack Catherine Mathis was totally promoted today! According to a Times press release, the company has made Mathis a senior vice president of corporate communications; she was a lowly old vice president just yesterday! "Catherine is the consummate communications professional. She has a deep understanding of our business and, under her leadership, we have taken a smart, strategic approach to media and investor relations," NYTCo chair Janet Robinson says in the release. We can't really argue with that, seeing as how the release also announces a promotion for the paper's general counsel, but just breezes through his CV. Now that's owning the story. More » -
jobs
Gawker.com Is Hiring
Blogs such as Gawker won't be running 5,000-word-long features any time soon, nor giving writers weeks to investigate. But the web—other blogs, search engines and social network sites—increasingly rewards original items. So we're looking for an additional reporter for the team. More » -
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See You At Shark Bar
Mark Twain once suggested that we rejoice at a birth and weep at a funeral because we are not the person involved, and that, along with the cartoon you see here, is about as close to my philosophy of life as you're ever gonna get. So guess what? I'm kind of shockingly sad to be leaving Gawker. There will be tears. Who would have thought?
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announcements
Please Welcome Alex Pareene
22-year-old N.Y.U. dropout Alex Pareene has been forced to live in Washington, D.C. for more than a year now. He took over at Wonkette in January, 2006. That is sad, because D.C. is no place for the young. (Except for the getting robbed. That's good for kids.) I have rectified this situation. As Alex Balk leaves us, although he may be irreplaceable, at least a new Alex shall rise. He starts Monday after next, and will be back in New York as soon as he and his girlfriend (I know, right?) can work that out. It's not like we pay relocation costs or anything. I'm sure they'll find an apartment somewhere Rockaways-adjacent!
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By ChoireComment by Clarence Rosario: Way late on this, but is the new Alex is kinda like Landfill #2 in Beerfest? more » | Other threads
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announcements
Hiya From The New Associate Editor
So what the hell happened here last week? A girl can't take a couple weeks off between jobs without all hell breaking loose? And I was so looking forward to tormenting my soon-to-be-former coworker Alex Balk on a daily basis. Moment of silence for The Cock, people. So I'm Maggie, and I'll be your Associate Editor (and apparently Gawker's token Gentile) for the remainder of the flight. As previously mentioned, I sold out to the man for a few years and spent some time shilling for the Village Voice and the New York Sun, but regular paychecks and solid benefits get old fast. Happy to be here. Let the wild rumpus begin! -
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Alex Balk To Radar
Alex Balk, the man who drunkenly typed his way through a thousand angry posts on the deficiencies of Radar, has done the unthinkable. He's leaving Gawker to become the executive editor of Radar.com. Do you know what this means? It means he was right about every single thing he said. We claim victory. All sort-of kidding aside, what can we say? We love him and we'll miss him terribly; it's sick. We are taking his fingernails now to clone him. And his last two weeks here should be a wild ride. -
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Please Welcome Maggie Shnayerson
A new addition to the gang here will begin work on September 24th. Her name is Maggie Shnayerson, and she has been employed most recently as the PR chick at the Village Voice. (Her official title: publicity director.) Prior to that, she's reported for the Sun, freelanced here and did some stringing there, was an editorial intern at Time and was an editor at The Dartmouth. We were most impressed with Maggie when dealing with her on stories about the Voice: She was a complete hardass. Kind of a bitch, in fact! But a superfun bitch. This is a prime requirement for working here. I also liked that she has experience with how the business side of media things are run—and also a great ear for how PR spin is propagated. What else? She likes a stiff drink, which is key. Also she attended Brearley. Heh. We're so pleased to welcome her back to the other side. -
departures on great terms
Doree Shafrir Ankles New Media Sweatshop
Near the end of day yesterday, Gawker's Doree Shafrir handed in her two weeks notice. She'll be leaving us for the New York Observer, where she'll write and report on "ideas." (That role has been, it seems, officially unfilled since the departure of Sheelah Kolhatkar for Portfolio over the winter.) Doree began here as an "associate editor" last October, and early this year transitioned to reporting on the media full-time. She can only be replaced here at Gawker with a terrifying room full of jerry-rigged threshing machines held together with baling wire and lubricated with grain alcohol. We sincerely wish her the best of luck in destroying Jared Kushner from inside his own shop—or, at least, in bringing that paper what the boy publisher may not know it so desperately needs.
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announcements
Widen the streets, I'm back, bitches!
Just for today and tomorrow, you get one more taste of the salty juice of Nick Douglas, former Valleywag editor. Publisher Nick Denton is done editing the site, except to insert one-line items gushing about his new iPhone, and I assume new editor Owen Thomas wanted a long Independence Day break. (As if gays love America!) Today's agenda (Facebook bitching! Neologisms!) is below. Oh, also: I'm drinking a six-pack of Pabst today. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by waynelambright: A true Pabst blue ribbon drinker would never stop at just 6 delicious thirst-quenching golden nectars encased in their post... more » | Other threads
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digg
Valleywag's Digg Policy
Right! There's a new editor in town and he commanded that I tell you our new Digg policy! There'll be no more foolin' around here, so listen close! (Executive summary: We don't care what you digg, go nuts, but it's your funeral.) More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by InferiorOlive: yogi billo? Is that like the spanish version or something? more » | Other threads
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gawker
Small Change: Ways Of Seeing
Yes, there's something new going on up top of this here website! The powers that be believe that you, the person of the year, would like to have choices in the ways you look at things. So! Your default view (called, for no known reason, "Picks") will be just as it always was: New stuff at the top, our older blatherings at the bottom. "Popular" means that things will be ranked by what is supposedly most popular. "All" is a little misleading. It does not quite bring the entire internet into this browser window. That would make your head pop like an overripe pumpkin on Halloween night, as Ann Magnuson so famously said. Instead it brings in content from a good number of the sites we read throughout the day. (On that page you'll find some wacky "promote" buttons, which, if pressed enough, bring posts to the front page of Gawker, apparently. NEAT. SUPER.Ah, that turned out to be a management lie! Yay.) Beneath that are some popular categories. And up top on the side there, "summary" is for people who can't be assed to read a full post and "thumbs" is for the entirely post-literate crowd who'd prefer to not have much text disturbing them at all. Please enjoy exploring. And you can totally email us with questions! Except we'll be all, "What the hell do we know?"
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By ChoireComment by Slackferno: @KimGordonsPanties: Like Feldman or Haim, not like a group of gospel singers. more » | Other threads
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gawker
Small Change: Tag, We're It
Because we all like to be warned when something changes—remember when you came home one day in third grade and daddy was gone and mommy was crying and then you had a new apartment to live in every other weekend? Or, say, when your New York Times arts listings were suddenly moved around? (I certainly don't!)—please be apprised that the tech people who actually run this site have installed something cute here. You'll notice more links appearing in posts to our stunningly-organized archives. They appear automatically. Anyway, enjoy, or ignore, and in the future, I'll try to give y'all a warning when little new things are coming. This one took me from behind and by surprise last night. (Yes. That's what he said.) -
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The Loyal We
This Gothamist style book "royal we" around here is driving me crrrrazy! As those who care may know, here on Gawker we've got our Dickensian-monikered Alex Balk, and, pictured at right, Doree and Emily, and our new buddy Josh, and I pop in on the site now and then when I'm not lunching or leaving early or going down on management. (Plus, there's Jon Liu and Leon Neyfakh on Gawker Weekend!) At this point, it's gotten too hard for y'all much-appreciated readers to know to whom you should address your hate mail. Although it goes without saying that as at any publication, or in our case, "publication," each of us rarely acts entirely alone (we steal from each other, disagree, re-agree, and so on), still it seems that the benefits outweigh the deficits, and so henceforth let there be bylines. Obviously not every lil' round-up or whatever needs them, and of course, management reserves the right to change their—err, his!—mind.
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announcements
Please Welcome Joshua David Stein
Joshua Stein has labored in the lifestyle trenches as the editor of Gridskipper since last June. Now, we are magically teleporting him over here to Gawker. As our new After Hours Editor, he'll report each day on restaurants, dining clubs, chefs, hotels, beignets, sommeliers, Meatpackers, gentrification and un-gentrification, and neighborhood culture. And Balthazar. You are encouraged to reach out to him at josh AT gawker.com. [UPDATE: Yes, he will be posting about things that occur after hours, not actually posting after hours. Also, he likes to spend his actual After Hours times with his FEMALE WOMAN GIRLFRIEND. We know!]
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By ChoireComment by ZiggyStardust: "Also, he likes to spend his actual After Hours times with his FEMALE WOMAN GIRLFRIEND. We know!" So is he dating... more » | Other threads
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jobs
Silicon Valley Help Wanted
Valleywag, Gawker Media's Silicon Valley gossip site, is searching for a senior editor—someone currently practicing business journalism who fancies moving to the San Francisco Bay Area and mastering a whole new batch of Masters of the Universe. The job is full-time and offers highly competitive pay to go along with high visibility. To apply, send an email (no resumes or attachments, please) with a paragraph or two about yourself and your interest in the job, plus links to blogs or articles you've written, to jobs@gawker.com.
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announcements
Hello From Your Gawker Weekend Editors
Hello catdogs! Sorry for showing up so early on a Saturday, but the weekend is short, and there's four pounds of The New York Times to get through. For those of you who usually read Gawker as a distraction from work, good news: now you can read it as a distraction from brunch. More »
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By ChoireComment by shanaisapunkrocker: Jenny is right. The only exception is the Sunday NYT magazine section's crossword puzzle. I don't mind killing time on... more » | Other threads
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announcements
Introducing: Gawker Weekend
Beginning this weekend, and ending whenever we feel like it, please enjoy Gawker Weekend. On Saturdays and Sundays, Gawker Weekend editors Jonathan Liu and Leon Neyfakh will delve deep into the weekend lifestyle and culture media so beloved, or presumably beloved, by the sorts of people who actually get weekends to shop, relax, and, you know, just be themselves in pictorials with nice furniture. Come with us—if you're not too busy antiquing!—to the land where newspapers believe that books are extremely decorative and the hustle and bustle of the financial district pales in comparison to the joys of extreme boating, film-going, fun apartment-hunting and the enjoyment of the other advertiser-friendly weekend lifestyle arts.
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announcements
Gawker Jobs Wants You Jobbing
Not necessarily in light of recent developments in the media-world's job market, but still conveniently enough, we're relaunching Gawker Jobs. Should you be hiring, you can post jobs here. Recruiters can and should email jobshelp AT gawker.com to request special coupon codes. Crazily enough, super-fun ads may even end up here on Gawker. Why not? Seriously, some afternoons we just spend the day looking for apartments on Craigslist and searching online for better jobs. -
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Gawker Media Needs Video Assistant
Do you like moving pictures? Do you prefer working but two to three days a week? Do you have a reel, maybe some experience with Final Cut Pro, and a love of working as a video production assistant? Then read on! More » -
jobs
Gawker Help-Wanted: Come Work With Us!
Gawker is looking for a writer with a strong obsession with women's magazines to work on various and sundry projects, the particular details of which may be revealed at some date in the mid- to far-future. This is a full-time job that pays accordingly. You should be based in New York City and ready to start more or less immediately. If you're interested, write a paragraph about yourself and a paragraph or two discussing a women's magazine of your choosing and email it to jobs@gawker.com. If you've got a blog, please include the URL. For our sanity, and yours, emails with resumes or attachments will be deleted unread. Don't make us get all Laurel Touby on you. Thanks.
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By abalk2Comment by HeatherNumber1: I was going to apply but then someone told me Juggs isn't technically a 'women's magazine.' Same thing with Martha... more » | Other threads
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gadgets
Me and Bill Gates: Talking 'Bout Porsches, Breakin the Law, and Small "Gadget" Jokes
We just had a sit down with Bill Gates. And when I say we, I mean myself, Brian from Kotaku, Robert Scoble, Ryan from Engadget, and Chris from Joystiq. All friendly rivals. So, the meeting was like elimidate, with the 5 of us vying for his attention. Ryan took the lead and asked great technical questions about the future of Microsoft. [Gizmodo] -
announcements
Who Knew Jalopnik Would Be A Big Bright Shining Interweb Movie Star?
Wow, we're totally in the bright lights now. Looks like the database of all things movies on the intertubes, IMDB, has decided we're worthy enough to be a star — a bright and shining star. True, it's at the bottom of their home page in the "Hit List" section, but when you're like us — and lacking in that "one special thing" — you've got to start somewhere, right? I mean, first step's IMDB's link-love section and then next thing you know, we're getting top billing as an extra in the next "Fast & The Furious" movie. Come to think of it, maybe the bright lights aren't the place to be. [Jalopnik] -
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James Kim Update: Satellites, National Guard Enter Search
The search for James Kim is being expanded: Not only is the National Guard on their way, but a satellite is being rerouting to help spot the man. The eye-in-the-sky is GeoEye's Ikonos.The satellite could record images of an area as large as 2,000 square kilometers. The cameras on the Ikonos boast a very high resolution, able to get a bead on objects 39 inches wide.
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Tech Editor Goes Missing: CNet's James Kim Lost In the Great Northwest
This Fall's deluge of gadget gossip must have left CNet's James Kim exhausted. So he finished his Zune review, and this past weekend went for a vacation drive up to the great Pacific Northwest with wife and kids. They've been missing since. [Gizmodo]
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