Hasta La Creative!

Choire Sicha and two other Gawker editors walked out on Nick Denton late last year. They’d had enough, but enough of what? The New York Times had to find out.

…During a vacation at a house on Fire Island in November, Mr. Sicha decided he’d had enough. He said he resented Mr. Denton’s pressure to produce more mass-appeal content.

“I don’t care that top 10 lists perform well on the Internet,” Mr. Sicha said by phone last week from New Hampshire, where he was covering the primaries for The New York Observer. “I don’t want to write a top 10 list in my life, ever. I don’t want to construct a charticle.”

He said he had long understood from Mr. Denton that Gawker’s sought-after audience was supposed to be prominent members of the Manhattan news media like Tina Brown and Kurt Andersen.

Ms. Brown, speaking by telephone from her apartment before leaving for a cocktail party last week, said she had never been a regular reader.