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Finke Photographed, Rewarded By 'Observer' [Prizes]

The Observer declared occasionally nutty but totally must-read WGA strike chronicler and studio nemesis Deadline Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke their "media mensch of the year." ALSO they found an...

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: hollywood, new york observer, nikki finke, prizes, writers strike
Coke Cure Forthcoming Announce Houston's Least Popular Scientists [Science]

Scientists are hard at work on a "vaccine" that will prevent you from enjoying cocaine. That vaccine is called "New York." Psych! It's actually a drug that "stimulates the immune system to attack"...

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: cocaine, drugs, science
Mayor Bloomberg Will Tell You Your Future: It's Grim [Open Captioned]

[Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to start the countdown to midnight during the New Years eve celebration at Times Square; image via AP]Also, you may be wondering what exactly this Open Caption...

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: ap, mayor bloomberg, open captioned
Shares of Google fell $11 bucks on the rumor ... [Google]

Shares of Google fell $11 bucks on the rumor that they were expanding further into print marketing, because, in the words of lostremote's David Johnson, "Wall Street hates print more than it loves...

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: google, money, print is dead, wall street
Perez Hilton Has Apparently Devoured Alice Cooper, Taken On Some Of His Qualities [Open Captioned]

["Celebrity Blogger" Perez Hilton poses for photogs at MTV's Times Square New Year's Eve masquerade party; image via AP]

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: ap, open captioned, perez hilton, alice cooper
Murdoch forgets a managing editor [Wall Street Journal]

And so it begins. When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation completed its acquisition of the Wall Street Journal, the Australian-born mogul brought in a fellow countryman as the business newspaper's...

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: marcus brauchli, robert thomson, rupert murdoch, wall street journal
Carson Daly Befuddled By Own Fame [Open Captioned]

[Carson Daly pauses to reflect during his hosting duties on New Year's Eve, Times Square; image via INF]

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: carson daly, inf, open captioned
Freelancers Union Health Benefits SNAFU Has Members Fuming [Evil Non-profits]

What's this? Members of the Freelancers Union are up in arms over badly-executed changes to their health insurance benefits! Oh, the irony! On November 30, the union, which says it "represents the...

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: benefits, evil non-profits, freelancers, freelancers union, permalancers
Newspaper Manager Inadvertently Calls Nick Denton A Visionary [Living Wages]

Dear Journalists: Lucas Grindley, Operations Manager of HeraldTribune.com ("southwest Florida's information leader"), would like you to get paid like bloggers. Specifically, like us! Summing up a...

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogs, compensation, journalism, living wages, money
Gawker in 2008 [Housekeeping]

I am, says Jacob Weisberg, doing a "Cheney" -- heading the search committee for a new managing editor of Gawker, and choosing myself. Thanks for that. Yes, Brian Stelter had the story right. The site...

Started in Gawker • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: alex pareene, annalee newitz, housekeeping, ken layne, maggie shnayerson
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