Denton: Media site 'may inadvertently commit journalism'
(NEWSER) - Gawker.com began life as a gossip site for the New York media industry, but these days the site is increasingly looking away from incestuous Manhattan—it's covering everything from reality TV to global politics, and recently the site hired an actual investigative reporter. Nick Denton, the site's founder, tells Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post that the tone is changing, if begrudgingly. "We may inadvertently commit journalism," he says. "That is not the institutional intention." More»
