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...These rules, however, were written in an age when print outlets had time to consult their attorneys and deliberate the legal risks, and moral ethics, of publishing controversial stories. Daulerio says a Gawker lawyer did not look at his posts before he published them. In fact, Gawker founder Nick Denton recently sent a memo to his staff imploring them to act less like traditional media. "Let's check to see whether the associated claim is true," Denton wrote. "But we should publish anyway, making clear what we know to be true and what remains up in the air ... There...
...Denton is clearly altering the rules. "The Web has obviously changed journalistic standards," he wrote in an e-mail response to TIME. "It demands faster turnaround for news stories; exposes the stiflingly cozy relationships between many media outlets and the organizations they cover; and it also allows us to correct and expand on our stories as we go. A Web news story always is a work in progress...
...diamond in Denton, Texas, freshman pitcher Rachel Brown stepped into the circle for the Harvard softball team. It was Opening Day, and Brown had gotten the call. Kansas leadoff batter Stevie Cristoso came to the plate, and before long, was caught looking as the ball sizzled past her for the first strikeout of Brown’s career.The freshman couldn’t have asked for a better start—or an out more representative of her rookie season.“Strikeouts, that has kind of been my pattern the last few years,” Brown said...
...garnered 8.9 million unique users that month, according to Nielsen - more than double what it attracted a year ago. It gets a million-plus comments from readers a month. A business newswire recently valued the site at more than $90 million. Only one independently held online-content company (Nick Denton's Gawker properties) is worth more...
...says. “Their speed on the bases will generate runs alone just on stolen bases...With both of them on the bases, we’re going to be unstoppable.”The Crimson opened its season last weekend at the Quality Inn & Suites Invitational in Denton, Texas, where it split with both Kansas and North Texas. Harvard got off on the right foot with a 3-2 walkoff victory in the season opener against the Jayhawks—the team’s first season-opening win since 2005.“We?...