Want to Work For Gawker? Start Commenting

Talk about the slow boat to getting a job: Gabriel Delahaye spent three years as a commenter on Gawker.com before he got a fill-in gig there, according to the Columbia Journalism Review.

“He wanted to be a writer, and while he had a blog, he was trying to develop a presence on Gawker’s site,” says CJR’s Alysia Santo. “It seemed like the only access point to that industry,” Delahaye told her. “I didn’t understand how else to do it, so that was the route I took.”

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