By Foster Kamer 1/11/12 1:04pm

Launches

Awl Music!

Awl City: The Awl Launches Awl Music, Tumblr-Powered Video-Radio Station for Awl Their Friends

Longreads-approved website The Awl—run by Radar, Observer, and Gawker expats Alex Balk and Choire Sicha—is coming up on its third anniversary! Since they’ve launched, they’ve spun off three blogs from the mothership, general ladies’-interest site The Hairpin, comedy blog Splitsider, and most recently, gadget blog The Wirecutter.

And as of today, they’ve now launched a…Tumblr…radio station…of music videos, AwlMusic.TV.  DJ’d by them, and run by Eric Spiegelman, he of Old Jews Telling Jokes.

Maybe it’s just best to let them explain. Read More

By Drew Grant 10/17/11 4:19pm

Occupy Wall Street

Ted Hall, in different states of OWS fervor.

Ted Hall: The Voice of Occupy Wall Street, or General Crazy Person?

Edward T. Hall III, better known as “Ted” to his friends, has become one of loudest voices on Occupy Wall Street. The lanky redhead with the neon-splotched hat looks vaguely like a Scream-era Matthew Lillard, making him easy to identify in YouTube videos of protests, where he can frequently be found preaching to the crowd in almost every single instance of arrests during the occupation of Zuccotti Park.

Before becoming a member of OWS, Mr. Hall made a minor splash in the tabloids, when he jumped a JFK luggage carousal in an attempt to get around airport security without I.D. and talk to a girl.

So why is The New York Times making him the poster boy for the protest? Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 9/20/11 8:25pm

Lineage

Awl My Children: Spawn of Gawker Inspires and Advises Editorial Ideologues

During his first company-wide meeting two weeks ago, Nick Denton declared that Gawker Media is a technology company, not an editorial one, according to a report published on The Awl. The recasting of the Gawker blog network left at least one current editor scratching his head, but it was clearly a smart strategic message for Mr. Denton to broadcast.

The resurgence of New York media over the past two years has been led by companies whose primary business does not involve words. E-commerce colossus Gilt Groupe and technology and data giants Bloomberg and Reuters lured top legacy media talent to their doors with pre-recession salaries and the sense of relief offered by a company for whom making payroll is not a routine emergency. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 9/05/11 9:19am

Back to School

rookie

Tavi Launches Magazine with Help from Friends at This American Life and The Awl

Tavi Gevinson’s online magazine for teens, Rookie, launched today. Although it publishes daily, Rookie will have monthly themes to create the cohesiveness of a magazine issue, according to managing editor Emily Condon. This month is “beginnings,” appropriately. Rookie may still publish print volumes–a Rookie yearbook, say–but there are no immediate plans, she added.

In Read More

By Dan Duray 2/01/11 9:58pm

Blogs

The End of Blogging

“I don’t really see a blog business,” said Nick Denton over gchat. He still wasn’t sold on the idea of an interview regarding his sites’ redesign, scheduled to debut tomorrow, and seemed to be attempting an escape. “I should find you that old post in which I compare blog ad revenues to McDonald’s franchises, i.e. Read More