There’s this, and then there’s this, which is much more eloquent and is pretty much the best “state of the industry” thing I’ve seen in a while. Anyway, if you’re someone with the power to hire, Maggie Shnayerson is a top-notch writer with great instincts. HIRE HER.
I’ve been reading Gawker for years now and it obviously peaked in the Doree/Emily/Balk’s cock era. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the correlation between the rapid decline in content and increase in posts. Maggie was one of the writers whose posts I still enjoyed as opposed to Denton’s disjointed braggy insider posts or Nick Douglas’s rambling You Tube posts. If Denton fucks with Jezebel, then it’s officially over.