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Grigoriadis Dissects Gawker, Finds Shriveled Heart
mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA —
... . Writing in New York , Grigoriadis writes: Like most journalists, I tend to have a defeatist attitude about Gawker, dismissing it as the Mystery Science Theater 3000 of journalism, or accepting its vague put-downs under the principle that any press is good press. She liked Elizabeth Spiers , but then she felt sorry for ...
Developing: Print Media Threatened by Internets
Gothamist —
... The current New York Magazine dives deep inside the navel with seven sprawling pages on ...
The S&M Of GossiPorn
The Hot Blog —
... The following are selected pull-quotes from the New York Magazine article on Gawker, that in the schizophrenia of the day, both admonishes the horrible behaviors of GossiPorn and lovingly lingers in the moist, heated self-delusion of "blogger as celebrity" that drives much of the mania in the first place. ...
Missdemeanor: Gossips Attack Female Journalist With Schoolyard Taunt, Sexual Threat
Jezebel —
You may have seen that Gawker Media's flagship site Gawker was the subject of a New York magazine cover story this week written by Contributing Editor Vanessa Grigoriadis. Ms. Grigoriadis writes: "With Gawker, there is now little need for the usual gossip players like... The New York Post 's 'Page Six,' emasculated by the Murdoch hierarchy after the Jared Paul Stern scandal." Apparently, one or more of the staffers on the Page Six column interpreted that passage as a personal attack: An ...
Missdemeanor: Gossips Attack Female Journalist With Schoolyard Taunt
Jezebel —
You may have seen that Gawker Media's flagship site Gawker was the subject of a New York magazine cover story this week written by Contributing Editor Vanessa Grigoriadis. Ms. Grigoriadis writes: "With Gawker, there is now little need for the usual gossip players like... The New York Post 's 'Page Six,' emasculated by the Murdoch hierarchy after the Jared Paul Stern scandal." Apparently, one or more of the staffers on the Page Six column interpreted that passage as a personal attack: An ...
FULL COURT PRESS
- Revenge? Page Six Says it with Rape
RadarOnline.com —
Note to female reporters: mess with Page Six, you might get raped. (But only if you're hot.) New York scribe Vanessa Grigoriadis learns this the hard way this morning after hypothesizing, in an otherwise tepid think piece on Gawker media, that Page Six was "emasculated" in the wake of the Jared Paul Stern payola scandal. Cue the misogynstic ...
the man has his finger firmly pressed against my trachea today
Cajun Boy in the City —
... everybody sucks ...
Steve Almond: Gawking Ourselves to Death
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog —
... But I didn't really get why my editor was so excited until I read this piece in New York Magazine (by Vanessa Grigoriadis) which thoughtfully describes how Gawker has tapped into the "rage of the creative underclass" within the small, aggrieved universe of New York City literati. ...
Do Non-Media Types Care About Media Celebrities?
Jossip —
... So what’s Kurtz’s underlying point? Is he suggesting that Touby has lost her focus, that the journalistic utopia she once envisioned has instead yielded a celebrity media circus? That her ideal of an all-inclusive community (built on “warmth and camaraderie”) has become as cliquish and cutthroat as any other? If so, then I’d be the first to agree. Although I’d also be hard-pressed to hold just one person responsible, whether it’s the founder of Mediabistro or the founding editor of Gawker. ...
Page Six’s Alpha Males Probably Didn’t Want To Rape Vanessa Grigoriadis So Much As Show Her Their ‘Manhood’
Jossip —
... to Grigoriadis’ NY Mag “slam” which read: “Grigoriadis ignores the fact that half the Page Six staff is female. The male half might take her somewhere private and disprove her theory, but we don’t like a woman with a mustache.” ...
Gawker Seeks Managing Editor [Jobs]
Gawker —
... We normally like to have a successor lined up, in an orderly fashion, when one of our managing editors has an existential crisis. Oops. Awkward. ...
Gawker Editorial Staff Jumping Ship
Gothamist —
... “You get focused on being sensational and even more brain candyish than Gawker was to start with.” Gould also seems finally fed up with working at a place where caustic cynicism is the alpha and omega – she concludes her post by agreeing with n + 1’s take on Gawker as a “reprehensible bully.” (Could it also be that Jimmy Kimmel struck a nerve with his cautionary vision of Gould’s future arrival in hell being posted on Gawker Stalker?) Ultimately, with one book published and plenty of publicity already, Gould seems sufficiently well branded to survive the jump. ...
Choire Sicha, Ex-Gawker Editor
Gothamist —
... In the New York Magazine cover story, you’re quoted as saying: “Not a week goes by I don't want to quit this job, because staring at New York this way makes me sick.” How did Nick Denton react to that? He’s sort of promulgating that more and more right now. I know he sees my quitting as like my own “existential crisis” in his words, when really, I just don’t like being management. I’ve always been a whiny little girl. ...
Fameballs Are The Future [Internets]
Gawker —
... Now if you disagree, let me defend my first assumption by saying my editor told me to write this. And let's get the first example of self-exposure out of the way: All the Gawker Media writers. We've had that idea shoved down our brains, we all know bloggers love themselves. Next. ...
Can Gawker Get Its Groove Back?
Pressed —
... . They have their root in a fallacy held, at least until recently, by owner Nick Denton: that was possible for the site to continue to increase its traffic indefinitely while maintaining its hold on its core audience of what New York termed the "creative underclass." ...
"Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears [Rock-critically Correct]
Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip —
... RS's piece, "The Tragedy of Britney Spears," is written by Vanessa Grigoriadis, who last fall penned a chin-stroker as to the greater meaning of the enterprise of which Idolator.com is a part. Her story is thus lighter on reportorial rigor and heavier on pop psychology than Gross'. "[Spears] is not book smart," Grigoriadis writes. "But she is intelligent enough to understand what the world wanted of her: that she was created as a virgin to be deflowered before us for our amusement and titillation. She is not ashamed of her new persona--she wants us to know what we did ...
Are Bloggers Bipolar? [Vanessa Grigoriadis]
Gawker —
... . So the personal revelations in a new documentary film project aren't exactly news. But the deceptively cute profile writer—whose personal charm masks an incisive and ferocious journalist—does come out with an intriguing line. "As someone who is over-dramatic, and over-sensitive, and moody and attention-seeking, and interested in other people's approval. All of those things add up to not being bipolar but just who I am." No wonder, when Grigoriadis explored the angst of the creative underclass in last autumn's profile of Gawker, she captured the culture of web writing so well. ...
Young Writers Must Strategize! [Making It]
Gawker —
... ! Jessica Wakeman wasn't sure how to make her writerly dreams come true, so with adorable naivete, she asked Vanessa Grigoriadis, the successful but occasionally-mocked writer of Rolling Stone articles, Britney meltdown-profiles, and creative-underclass blogger chronicling. Vanessa's response? "You need a strategy." ...
The internets 10 most hated people.
Oh No They Didn't! —
... about the end of her blog like the Bush Administration treated the fall of Saddam Hussein. (Of course, Julia's absence, like peace in Iraq, was short-lived.) The fact remains, though, that each of the 284 overwhelmingly negative posts written about Julia on Gawker over the past three years have only served to raise her profile. It is not a stretch to say that Julia Allison rode the rage of the creative underclass to a cushy six-figure TV gig and monthly all-expenses-paid trips to St. Barts. Which, of course, makes everyone hate on her all the more. ...
Purely Random People Coming Together: The National Magazine Awards [Magazines]
Gawker —
... having some trouble aligning them correctly, so I will put the captions here, and the pictures below. 1. The view from the ballroom, and also what this crowd of media honchos controls: the world. 2. Here, Anderson Cooper, live on stage! It's really him, I promise! 3. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly walks away from me in fear after I challenge him to a debate on media consolidation laws. 4. Fameball Julia Allison and New York Magazine writer Vanessa Grigoriadis, whose article about this site was nominated for an award last night. They're both very personable! ...
Weekend reading
Cajun Boy in the City —
... night. I was browsing through the lists of winners and finalists, particularly in the categories of feature writing, profile writng, essays, and columns/commentary, because those are the categories of things that I like to read when I read magazines. I noticed that there were quite a few pieces that I'd read previously and adored, so I figured I'd list them (My personal top 15) here and link to them. There's the infamous Vanessa Grigoriadis feature on Gawker from NY Mag... Everybody Sucks Three Kurt Anderson pieces for NY mag... American ...
Why So Angry, Young Bloggers?
RadarOnline.com —
... districts and where to buy an apartment so little Dakota or Snipely can go to the right school.) And New York is also for an audience that has, usually, some idea that such a concern is a little bit despicable. Though that also usually goes out the window at application time. So there's a problem when 20-somethings are in the Internet content mills, because they hate what they're writing about and they hate who they're writing about and, oh my God, didn't Vanessa Grigoriadis once write a ...
