Media Beat: Lockhart Steele on Nick Denton: 'I Loved Working For Him'
Gawker by day, blog network by…day. That was Curbed Network founder and president Lockhart Steele’s schedule for at least a few years.
While spending his days as managing editor at Gawker, Steele got his own network up and running. “Everyone wastes time on the job in different ways; I guess my way of wasting time was blogging, for another blog,” he said.
His company includes the well-known blogs Curbed, Eater, Racked, and Gridskipper, along with local and national versions.
So what does Steele recall about working for Gawker Media founder Nick Denton? “Nick has a certain public persona, where people sort of see him as this dark overlord.
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