#gawker media

Barely 3 months after we saw big blog networks re-balancing their budgets, there's another one that's just finished brewing headed by Gawker Media's head-honcho himself, Nick Denton, with a self-leaked internal memo. Denton himself published the internal memo on the Gawker blog the other day, revealing plans to chop off 19 writers across his network. On a related note, the Pinoy-packed b5media blog network also sent out notices to all its bloggers about they pay adjustments. The overall gist of the pay restructure was that b5media was actually overpaying bloggers in the last 2 years because of an inaccurate metrics they've been using. In the previous payment scheme, there's a minimum base pay of $50 depending on how long you've been a member of b5media. It's something like this: New b5media blogger: $50 base + $0.75 per 1k pageviews A year-old b5media blogger: $100 base + $0.75 per 1k pageviews Veteran b5media blogger: $150-$200 base + $0.75 per 1k pageviews So, for a veteran blogger with 60k pageviews, one can get somewhere around $195 - $245 per month from the old scheme. In essence, it becomes less attractive to join b5media now as a new blogger. Not to be outshined by other tablets with phone functionalities, Huawei has launched a new 7-inch slate that can also allow you to make calls and send SMS - the MediaPad 7 Vogue. Read more in our articles including "Is problogging in recession?" and "Huawei launches the MediaPad 7 Vogue".