Nick Denton, Gawker Media’s micro-mogul, usu­ally has a nice line in online media busi­ness ana­lysis. But here, alas, he dis­ap­points [my ital­ics]:

1. Get out of cat­egor­ies such as polit­ics to which advert­isers are averse.… media groups can­not afford in the cur­rent envir­on­ment to fund their most noble mis­sions; they should leave that to public-spirited non-profits such as Pro Pub­lica. [Typ­ical Denton starter — except, of course, that he loves the less prof­it­able parts of his own micro-empire.] Con­tinue read­ing →