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Gizmodo is now covering more than tech news

Max Willens of Digiday writes about how tech news site Gizmodo has expanded its coverage into politics, news and other areas.

Willens writes, “Expanding an editorial scope comes with risks. But in Gizmodo’s case, it’s also yielded several major scoops, including an exposé on the suppression of conservative articles on Facebook’s trending topics widget and a full transcript of ex-Google employee James Damore’s controversial memo on diversity.

“‘Gizmodo was founded pre-iPhone, pre-Facebook, pre-Uber,’ said Kelly Bourdet, the site’s editor-in-chief. ‘The reality today is that technology touches every part of our lives.’

“For the most part, the forays into new topics haven’t driven any traffic surges. While a company spokesperson said Gizmodo is on pace to break an internal record for monthly traffic in August, the site’s U.S. traffic is essentially flat year over year, with 18 million monthly visitors in July, according to comScore data. Over the past 12 months, monthly unique visitors have oscillated between 15 million and 21 million, and average visitors’ time on-site is essentially unchanged as well, per comScore.”

Read more here.

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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