Wonkette going indie
The interesting news on the internets today (or at least the parts I pay attention to) is that Wonkette has been spun off from parent Gawker Media along with two other Nick Denton properties (Idolatar and Gridskipper). Wonkette will be owned by current editor Ken Layne in some sort of partnership with Blogads.
Despite certainly being in Wonkette’s target demographic I pretty rarely, if ever, visit/read the site. Some of the LNS stuff is amusing but other then that I’ve never found it particularly useful. I actually enjoy Gridskipper’s DC posts significantly more (I’ve never been to, or heard of, Idolator until today). In a internal memo Denton says this sale is because of slow ad sales but I’ll echo commentator josh at Fimoculous in that it seems odd for Denton to get rid of one of his flagship sites that deals in politics during a presidential election year.
Here’s Wonkette’s post on the move, here’s Gawker’s and here’s Politco’s coverage.Silicon Alley Insider has more analysis.
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