Nick Denton Quotes

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• Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.
• I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.
• Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.
• Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
• We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
• Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
• Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
• While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses,
• Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,
• Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
• Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.
• Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.
• I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.
• Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.
• Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.
• Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
• That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
• As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog…
• Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime…
• Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories…

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