Hamilton Nolan

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Hamilton Nolan is Gawker's longest-tenured (and best) writer, and has been instrumental in shaping the media behemoth into what it is today. Usually taking on the more serious topics on the site, Nolan is known for his acerbic writing style, his love of boxing, and, well, his bluntness...

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From “What Was Gawker? ”

“A Gawker editor of the past coined the slogan, ‘Honesty is our only virtue.’ That will do as well as anything. Many Gawker readers did not think we were the best writers, nor did they even particularly like us; they read Gawker because they knew that we would tell the truth about whatever was…”

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“Gawker was anarchist journalism at its finest. Every day, a page to be filled; every day, a chance for greatness, or idiocy. This site contains the very best and worst things that many writers have written. This fact drives many people mad. But to the sort of person who was cut out to be a Gawker…”

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“Most attempts to explain this publication’s editorial direction tell you more about the person doing the explaining than they do about this publication. With a little cherry-picking you can make it seem like our focus was just about anything. In truth, we had no focus. We had writers.”

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“Gawker was just a giant, empty page waiting to be filled, every day. It was a page large enough and deep enough to accept whatever you wanted to put on it. Serious things and non-serious things could sit side-by-side. News and inside jokes and essays and whatever idea had popped into your mind last…”

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“Most journalism jobs exist on a continuum between audience and freedom. If you want a lot of people to pay attention to you, you work at a place where the individual writer’s voice is completely subsumed into the institutional voice. If you want complete freedom to write whatever the hell you want,…”

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“Wherever you go in this life, there is some jerk telling you what to do. Almost always. But not always.”

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From “I Asked The World's Foremost Ethicist If It's Okay To Have A Revolution”

“The tech millionaires have no flair, but they will live forever.”

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From “Perspective | That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that.”

“Gawker was like the id of America, and potential sources knew where a story like that — representing the voice of the creative underclass — could get published”

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From “10 Questions With...Gawker's Hamilton Nolan!”

“I think any responsible boxing fan has to also be an advocate for making the sport safer, to the extent that's possible. There are several common sense reforms that could help do that. That said, it will always be a brutal sport, which is both part of its appeal and its tragedy.”

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From “‘I FEEL LIKE I’M OBLIGED TO SPEAK THE UNVARNISHED”

“There’s been a lot of great journalism done in the past year about inequality and unemployment in America and all of that is inspiring, in the sense that it makes me realize that I can use this site [Gawker] for something better than just hearing the sound of my own voice all the time.”

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