Ousted Editor: 'Gawker Shouldn't Be a Depository for the Latest Viral Video'
According to ousted Gawker editor, Maggie Shnayerson, the site has “changed dramatically” since her arrival in September 2007. “You have [Nick Denton acting as] publisher and an editor, and I think that’s a conflict of interest,” she told us by phone Monday afternoon, adding that “he’s trying to make Gawker much more mainstream, but I’m not sure if [Gawker] works as a HuffPo.”
Shnayerson, formerly PR director at the Village Voice, says she understands Gawker’s need to make money (“I’m not going to be one of those people who complains about publisher’s trying to make money.”)
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