The Rising Stars of Gossip Blogs
From left, Steve Krakauer, TV editor of Mediaite.com; Erin Carlson, editor of Crushable; Fred Mwangaguhunga, MediaTakeOut.com; Maureen O’Connor, Gawker weekend editor; Tommye Fitzpatrick, of Fashionologie; Lilit Marcus, editor of The Gloss; Sara Polsky, a writer for Curbed; and Foster Kamer of the Village Voice; Not shown: Bess Levin, editor of Dealbreaker.
IT had all the elements for the perfect tabloid gossip item — a clash between star financial journalists, big egos and a surprise ouster that had Wall Street buzzing: Henry Blodget, the well-known disgraced-analyst-turned-financial-pundit and co-founder of the much-read blog, The Business Insider, stunned the financial community last week by firing John Carney, the star managing editor of the site’s Clusterstock blog, reportedly because of philosophical differences over the site’s coverage.
The news, which was quickly picked up by the Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon, who subsequently sparked an online spat of his own with Mr. Blodget, did not break in a gossip column like The New York Post’s Page Six or in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, which in a previous era might have owned this story. Rather, the scoop came from a 25-year-old Village Voice gossip blogger and University of Utah dropout named Foster Kamer.
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