Nick Douglas (journalist)
Nick Douglas is a journalist working in and covering blogs.
He was the founding editor for Valleywag, a Gawker Media blog with gossip and news AbOUT Silicon Valley personalities, when it launched in February 2006. Gawker Media's Nick Denton chose Douglas because of his love of gossip, and his status as an unknown outsider. Douglas's previous experience consisted of a blog-focused gossip blog he edited as a college student called Blogebrity.
Eight months later Douglas was fired from his position after an interview he gave the R.U. Sirius Show (which was republished on a sister web site, 10 Zen Monkeys). On November 15 10 Zen Monkeys republished an internal memo leaked from Gawker Media in which the interview was cited as the determining factor for Nick's departure.
On December 1st 2006, The Huffington Post announced Nick Douglas was joining its blog covering media Eat The Press.