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Business Insider’s Blodget holds merger talks

Joe Pompeo of Capital New York reports that Business Insider’s Henry Blodget held merger talks with Gawker’s Nick Denton.

Pompeo writes, “It wouldn’t be too far-fetched: Blodget and Denton are mutual admirers who’ve struck up a content-sharing partnership in the past. And there’s long been speculation about the end-games for their respective blog empires.

‘It would not be false to say we discussed some sort of potential Gawker Media/Business Insider merger/partnership/collaboration,’ Blodget told Capital when reached for comment via email. ‘We did!’

“But he added: ‘I would just caution folks not to start hyperventilating about it. Nick and I discuss lots of things. We also discussed his wedding, for  example. And Gawker’s awesome new commenting system. And our collective  disbelief that some journalists don’t appreciate how much readers love  stories about everyday things like plane rides.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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