15 Facts About Nick Denton

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Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton was born on 24 August 1966 and is a British Internet entrepreneur, journalist, and blogger.

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Nick Denton is the founder and former proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and was the managing editor of the New York City-based Gawker, until a lawsuit by Terry Bollea bankrupted the company.

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Nick Denton grew up in Hampstead in London, the son of British economist Geoffrey Nick Denton and his wife, Marika, a Hungarian Jew who survived the Nazis during the Holocaust in Hungary and escaped the Soviet 1956 invasion of Hungary at age 18, and is Jewish.

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Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford, where Denton studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

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Nick Denton became the editor of the university's magazine, The Isis Magazine.

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Nick Denton began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times, a British daily business newspaper.

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Nick Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, called All That Glitters.

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Nick Denton was a co-founder in 1998 of a social networking site, First Tuesday.

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That same year Nick Denton co-founded media-monitoring service Moreover Technologies with David Galbraith and Angus Bankes, schoolmates from UCS.

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Nick Denton founded Gawker Media in 2002, initially running the company out of his apartment in New York City's SoHo.

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Up until 2012, Nick Denton paid himself a salary of $60,000 a year.

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Nick Denton publicly blamed Thiel several times for having planned to take down Gawker.

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On 28 October 2010, Nick Denton published an anonymous kiss-and-tell piece entitled, "I Had a One-Night Stand with Christine O'Donnell".

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Nick Denton filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on August 1,2016.

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On March 22,2017, Hogan and Nick Denton reached a settlement that allowed Nick Denton to emerge from personal bankruptcy.