On July 26, she drew 64 responses, an unusually high number, after Gawker posted an item about the contents of her refrigerator. Well, the site picked the right person apparently its readers can't get enough. "Gawker is trying to create their own celebrities, so they've used me," Allison pointed out. Still, I suspect, her greatest notoriety comes from Gawker's wacky fixation with her. She also writes a dating and relationships column for Time Out New York. As the editor at large of Star magazine, she often appears on cable-TV news shows to talk about starlet train wrecks. One Gawker editor said that Allison is so omnipresent that she has become "our Paris Hilton." That's where the comparison ends, though, since Allison stresses that she doesn't take drugs and seldom drinks alcohol.Īllison takes pains to note that she has a fledgling career, apart from Gawker. “It's estimated that Gawker Media rings up annual revenue of $52 million. "I knew it would be on Gawker that day," the chagrined Stengel acknowledged. For instance, Gawker got a copy of an email by Rick Stengel, Time's managing editor, urging writers to step up their work for Time's Web site. Jimmy Kimmel dressed down Gawker's Gould for it on "Larry King Live" in April, in a classic generation-gap scene.īut Gawker is more than a blip on the radar for media big shots. Its Gawker Stalker map, which consists of readers writing in celebrity sightings around New York, infuriates some celebrities (or, more to the point, their publicity-conscious handlers). A site known as Shylock Blogging estimated this week that Gawker Media rings up annual revenue of $52 million. Under visionary Nick Denton, Gawker Media itself is on a roll. Plus, many of the folks who send in comments on Gawker's items are just as sharp as the writers. The work of Managing Editor Choire Sicha and editors Alex Balk, Emily Gould, Shafrir and Joshua David Stein shines through. Also, for all of us occasional layabouts who delight in the site at slack moments, it's wittier than ever.
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