{"id":1414,"date":"2007-06-14T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T01:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/14\/owen-thomas-takes-the-reins-at-valleywag\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T21:25:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T01:25:24","slug":"owen-thomas-takes-the-reins-at-valleywag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/14\/owen-thomas-takes-the-reins-at-valleywag\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Thomas takes the reins at Valleywag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Business 2.0 magazine loses another writer\/blogger, and Valleywag loses Nick Denton (again). Owen Thomas has jumped from his B2.0 blog duties to the <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/housekeeping\/owen-thomas-is-the-valleywag-268844.php\">editorship of the &#8216;Wag<\/a>. Denton says he has been trying desperately to get rid of the editorship &#8212; although I suspect he has been having a pretty good time. As for Thomas, he could be forgiven for having a few butterflies about the move, given what happened to his predecessor, Nick &#8220;the other Nick&#8221; Douglas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thosebastards.com\/img\/18\/card-nick_denton_front.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_e4x301ag0r3.jpg?w=525\" alt='snipshot_e4\u00c3\u2014301ag0r3.jpg' \/><\/a>The other Nick was fired by Denton and then-editor in chief of Gawker Media, the wonderfully named Lockhart Steele (the other Nick was let go for, among other things, <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/14\/memo-why-valleywag-sacked-its-editor\/\">joking about lawsuits<\/a>). Douglas, who looks barely old enough to drive, went on to launch his own blog project called Look Shiny (and just launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/justintv-launches-look-shiny-featuring-nick-douglas\/\">live-blogging effort<\/a> as part of Justin.tv). Given his track record, which extends back from Business 2.0 through Time mag and a bunch of other jobs, all the way (as <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/06\/13\/valleywag-snags-an-editor-from-business-20\/\">Om mentions<\/a>) to the venerable Suck.com in the late 1990s &#8212; a veritable treasure trove of smart writing and sardonic wit that I miss a lot &#8212; it sounds like Owen can probably handle the job.<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope that Thomas can keep the Wag on the roll it&#8217;s been on since Denton took over again. I know that Mike Arrington believes Nick is the spawn of Satan &#8212; or at least one of his senior lieutenants &#8212; but I confess that I find much of what Valleywag writes a refreshing antidote to some of the breathless coverage that&#8217;s out there, and as my friend Paul Kedrosky <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/14\/congrats_to_owe.html\">points out<\/a>, Nick has done a pretty good job of breaking news too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Business 2.0 magazine loses another writer\/blogger, and Valleywag loses Nick Denton (again). Owen Thomas has jumped from his B2.0 blog duties to the editorship of the &#8216;Wag. Denton says he has been trying desperately to get rid of the editorship &#8212; although I suspect he has been having a pretty good time. As for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/14\/owen-thomas-takes-the-reins-at-valleywag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Owen Thomas takes the reins at Valleywag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}