Nick Denton Quotes
An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.
Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.
Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.
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.
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.
While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.
I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.
No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.