Deadspin v. ESPN update

[JayFarrar]

Nick Denton, who runs deadspin, among other online sites, doesn't much care journalism. Is pretty happy these days over the ESPN-Deadspin war.

The ESPN controversy and other stories seem to have left Deadspin at a consistently higher level than the summer. It's also doubled in traffic. If you needed any more evidence that scoops are rewarded, here it is. Deadspin has largely abandoned the blog filler. The site is down to 20 posts a day. But they're damn good posts.

Also goes on to say that pageviews are around 400 million combined for all the sites.
LA Times is between 100 and 200 million. NYTimes around 1 billion.

More here but I guess the message is that ESPN should be expecting more hits to keep coming.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174281

 

[Small Town Guy]

Denton's memos are somehow usually even more annoying than those of newspaper execs.