Nick Denton: 'I've Wanted a Gentler Gawker for a While'

Good luck with that!

Gawker founder Nick Denton is doing his best to put a positive spin on the chaos that has enveloped his media empire. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Denton said that perhaps the now-deleted awful item that outed a married man and led to two editors quitting under idiotic pretenses would be a turning point.

“It’s regrettable what has happened,” Denton explained. “But hopefully it will allow us to have a proper discussion about what Gawker should be in the future.

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