Code/Media 2015: Gawker Media Boss and Owner Nick Denton

Gawker Media’s Nick Denton is a Web publishing pioneer, but the Web publishing business isn’t very sentimental. It doesn’t care that you figured out how to turn blogging into a business. So what does Denton do now, at a time when many Web publishers have either raised big sums of venture capital and/or created a model based mostly on feeding Facebook — two choices Denton says he rejects? Interviewed by Peter Kafka.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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