Nick Denton’s Payroll Shrinks By One: Right Hand Man Noah Robischon To Fast Company [MediaMemo]

On the same day Gawker Media’s Nick Denton makes a splash with dire pronouncements about the future of media, he is also doing some internal reshuffling: Right-hand man Noah Robischon is moving on to Mansueto Ventures, where he will oversee Web operations for what the company is calling “Fast Company Media”. That means instead of beating on editors at Denton’s dozen-plus blog properties, he’ll be overseeing Fastcompany.com, fastcompany.tv, and scobleizer.com; the company downsized that group just last month. He’ll report to editor/managing director Bob Safian. The timing here is coincidental, Robischon says — he says Fast Company came to him two months ago. And he wants to make it clear that this is his move, not Denton’s. Noted. But I’ll go ahead and draw at least one connection: One the same day that Denton calls on... [read full story]