Gawker Founder Nick Denton Has a Sobering Take About Money's Influence on the Media

Jeff Goodby interviewed him at SXSW

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Gawker founder Nick Denton has no regrets about that Hulk Hogan sex tape—the one that led to the lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker and forced the site to shut down.

“The idea of the internet is to say all the things you believe with as little filter as possible, so I don’t regret having done that,” Denton said in a conversation with Jeff Goodby, co-founder of Goodby Silverstein & Partners, at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, on Sunday.

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