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My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

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I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

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I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.

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Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'

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Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

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Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.

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Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.

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An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

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Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.

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I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: August 24th, 1966

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