Valleywag Being Absorbed by Gawker

by Scott Beale on November 12, 2008 · 1 comment

The Man Who Owens The Internet

Owen Thomas, managing editor of Valleywag, has confirmed that the infamous tech gossip blog is being folded into Gawker with Owen switching roles from editor to columnist. Here’s more on the changes at Gawker from Nick Denton.

Valleywag Launch Party

And now for a trip down memory lane, here’s my write-up and photos of the Valleywag launch party back in February 2006 when Nick Denton introduced us to a then unknown Nick Douglas, Valleywag’s first managing editor.

photos by Scott Beale

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1 Jeffrey McManus November 13, 2008 at 9:27 am

Adios, carpetbaggers. Hope you do a better job making stuff up about New York than you did about Silicon Valley.

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