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New NYT public editor Clark Hoyt does a "soft launch" of his column, wonders why the paper didn't put the JFK terrorism plot on Page One, and concludes that editors have a tough job. [NYT]
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Meet Our New Watchdog
Yesterday, Gawker revealed that Buck "Hoyt" Kent, 64, was becoming its second Ombudsman. Kent won a Webby in 2003 for his coverage of that weird smell at the A/C/E station on 34th Street, and until recently was the rape-and-murder cartographer for Gothamist. He was one of the first bloggers to question the stories about Tom Cruise buying an apartment in the Dakota, stories that we still maintain are true. Or true-ish. He spoke with Chick's Clothes Occasionally reporter Jake Woodward. More »
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Final Thoughts About My Tenure And The Website's Future
As I conclude my tour of duty as the first ombdusman of Gawker, here are some final thoughts and concerns about the blog and its blogalism that flow from what I've observed over the past two months from my perch outside the office. You hear that? Two lousy months! They promised me a goddamn year! You get caught with one lousy prostie in Maryland and you're out on your ass. That's how they do things here. More »
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Glaring Omissions: "Look, I Am Stuck In The Life Of Jennifer Aniston"
Glaring Omissions reproduces tips received from readers in the last week that weren't covered on Gawker, either by accident (it happens!) or by design (it happens more often). More »
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The Gawker Ombudsman: I AM OLD AND THERE IS TOO MUCH YELLING!
I am going to use this column to do something I will never be able to do again—convey my first impressions of intensive Gawker-reading. Until I was asked to consider taking on this job, I had been only a casual reader, mainly clicking on the Stalker map to track the whereabouts of Kelly Ripa (Kelly: I know you love me! Why do you insist on playing these games?). Since that day, I have read more Gawker than is typical of any but the fruitlessly employed and Kurt Eichenwald's lawyer. More »
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What bloggers call "anecdotal leads" are like the drip, drip, drip of water torture to some readers, who want the facts fast and clean and don't want editors "to go on and on, in love with the sound of their own stupid voices, until they've forgotten what they were writing about in the first place," as a former, since returned, Gawker staffer once put it.
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The Gawker Ombudsman: Spit It The Hell Out Already
What bloggers call "anecdotal leads" are like the drip, drip, drip of water torture to some readers, who want the facts fast and clean and don't want editors "to go on and on, in love with the sound of their own stupid voices, until they've forgotten what they were writing about in the first place," as a former, since returned, Gawker staffer once put it.
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The Gawker Ombudsman: Solidarity Vs. "Screw You And Your Friend Dana Vachon"
Two separate incidents on Gawker recently seemed to reveal a sense of conflict behind the scenes at the blog amongst its editors. More »
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Help Jack Shafer Pick The Next 'Times' Public Editor
In a column for Slate that feels just as tossed off as this very post is sure to be, media critic Jack Shafer offers a list of suggestions for the soon-to-be-vacated position of New York Times Public Editor. Shafer wants to see "somebody who is under 40, whose worldview hasn't been Lasiked blind by decades inside a newspaper newsroom, and who writes the way fire ants bite." His nominees include blog empress Elizabeth Spiers (who apparently has gas), some lady from the New Yorker, and the dude from Talking Points Memo, who is a Princeton alum. In that spirit we've come up with our own slate of candidates. More »
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Media Bubble: Stalkers, Belchers, Etc.
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Media Bubble: Bye, Barney
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The Gawker Ombudsman: Accountability Vs. Sticking A Name On Every Goddamn Post
Dear Gawker Ombudsman, More »
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