Gawker Cuts Staff Pay Rate For Third Consecutive Quarter

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Gawker Cuts Staff Pay Rate For Third Consecutive Quarter
Gawker found this 7/3/2008 on www.radaronline.com [flag]
Who ever said the future of media was going to feel great? With the current traffic success of Gawker—70+ posts a day, amazing SEO results, and relentlessly hammered-home top stories to maximize numbers—comes a downside. The company, which [link]

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Stop Reading This Site Or We'll Shoot These Bloggers [Too Insidery]
Published 7/3/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... "The only answer, from the company's perspective? To keep getting more traffic—but to pay the producers of that traffic less for each pageview. So for the first two quarters of 2008—and now the third, according to a new memo regarding the pay rate for the quarter that began this week—the company has reduced the rate of pay per pageview." [Radar] ...

Late(ish) Breaks: WSJ.com, Gawker, more
Published 7/3/2008 by Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... -At a lot of companies, employees are rewarded for failure. But only at Gawker Media are they punished for success. [Radar] ...

Good Morning FBLA Readers -- The Rush and Radar Edition
Published 7/3/2008 at mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA
... Speaking of tragedy, with all the lay off news for print papers, here's another kick while you're down: according to Radar, Gawker bloggers' bonuses are being slashed by $2500 for over 1 million hits. They are now getting less money too, but it's because they are too successful. ...