Newsonomics: Univision’s Big Bet on E-Commerce, Built on Gawker’s Ashes

What was Gawker? A trailblazing, piercer of pretense? A snarky, vestigial leftover of the early bloggy web? A company that early on understood the relationship between reader enthusiasm and selling stuff? Probably all three. It’s the last one though — Founder Nick Denton’s ...

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Vinit Bharara’s Some Spider Begins to Weave Its Web

Several months ago, Vinit Bharara, founder of the digital media publisher Some Spider, bought the pre-K-oriented website Scary Mommy (“A parenting website for imperfect parents”) as a base for serial niche-site reproduction. The mommy site, which was founded by Jill Smokler, has already ...

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