As part of our continued growth, we're assembling one of the most innovative and hard-charging advertising organizations online. Come help us shape the way new media is monetized!

Read more at http://advertising.gawker.com.

About the Role

The Marketing Associate is a junior role on our Marketing team, which is an integral part of the Gawker Media advertising organization. The Marketing Associate’s major duties will include writing, researching, and designing compelling sales presentations for Gawker Media’s advertisers. We're looking for someone eager and exceptional who has solid experience in digital media, a keen understanding of presentation design, and an unhealthy love for everyone’s favorite software program — PowerPoint!

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with the Sales team to create persuasive materials for proposals and meetings
• Researching stats about our readers in Google Analytics, comScore, Nielsen, Twitter, Facebook
• Working with the Creative team to obtain site mockups for marketing materials
• Brainstorming with the Sales and Creative teams to concept custom marketing programs for major clients
• Creating campaign wrap up reports to encourage advertiser retention
• Representing both the irreverence and intelligence of our editorial culture in all materials

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or enough experience to show us it doesn't matter
• Minimum 1 year experience in similar sales support role at a digital publisher or agency
• Confidence in collaborating with multiple people to accomplish tasks and projects
• Uncanny attention to detail, unrivaled time management skills
• An addiction to lists and checking things off them!
• Sharp writing skills and strong facility with words
• Obsession with design and the elements of visual presentation
• Profound understanding of and appreciation for PowerPoint
• Proficiency in Photoshop
• Familiarity with Google products such as Apps, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, etc.
• Fluency in the language of digital media
• Enthusiasm for the future of brand advertising on the web General awesomeness

How to Apply

This is a full time position at Gawker Media's NYC headquarters with full benefits, including everything from unlimited time off with a sabbatical after four years and fully paid medical insurance to lunch and breakfast once a week.

Send an email to mktgjob AT gawker DOT com with the following in text of email:

• Introductory note explaining yourself and your interest in this position
• Resume pasted in plaintext in the body of the email
• A list of your daily web habits and preferred information sources (not our sites!)
• A 3-slide PowerPoint presentation that showcases your favorite local spot in New York and convinces us we should love it just as much as you do

As part of our continued growth, we're assembling one of the most innovative and hard-charging advertising organizations online. Come help us shape the way new media is monetized!

Read more at http://advertising.gawker.com.

About the Role

The Sales Planner position is a junior role on our Marketing team, which is an integral part of the Gawker Media advertising organization. The Sales Planner’s primary duty will include preparing pricing for Gawker Media’s advertisers. We're looking for someone eager and exceptional who has solid experience in digital media and an unhealthy love for everyone’s favorite software program — Excel!

Responsibilities

• Formulating plans, packaging, and pricing for Gawker Media’s advertising programs
• Brainstorming with the sales team to create fresh new ideas for our clients
• Researching statistics and inferring trends about our readers and traffic

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or enough experience to show us it doesn't matter
• Interest in the way brands and media businesses interact online
• Confidence in collaborating with multiple people and teams
• Uncanny attention to detail; unrivaled time management skills
• An addiction to lists and checking things off them!
• Obsession with design and the elements of visual presentation
• Profound understanding of and appreciation for Excel, including formulas and calculations
• Familiarity with Google products such as Apps, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, etc.
• Enthusiasm for the future new media monetization
• General awesomeness!

How to Apply

This is a full time position at Gawker Media's NYC headquarters with full benefits, including everything from unlimited time off with a sabbatical after four years and fully paid medical insurance to lunch and breakfast once a week.

Send an email to salesplanner AT gawker DOT com with the following in text of email:

• Introductory note explaining yourself and your interest in the position
• Resume pasted in plaintext in the body of the email (no attachments, please!)
• A list of your daily web habits and preferred information sources (not our sites!)
• The most impressive Excel spreadsheet you have created for a class, a previous job, or personal use.

As part of our continued growth, we're assembling one of the most innovative and hard-charging advertising organizations online. Come help us shape the way new media is monetized!

Read more at http://advertising.gawker.com.

About the Role

Account Services is a new team at Gawker Media. Our aim is to provide industry-leading campaign management and client service for all of our advertisers, who are leading consumer brands. Your primary goal will be supporting the Account team's Director and Manager in all facets of the post-sale campaign process — gathering client objectives, working with internal teams on program production, communicating status and success to clients, and encouraging retention. We're looking for someone exceptional to help grow this team!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or enough experience to show us it doesn't matter
• Relevant internship experience at an ad agency, publisher, or other industry-related company a strong help, but not necessarily required
• You can talk the talk — you know what CPM and CTR are defined as, and what the difference is between a pageview and an impression.
• Confidence in collaborating with multiple people to accomplish tasks and projects
• A desire to continually improve relationships with other people
• Uncanny attention to detail, unrivaled time management and prioritization skills
• An interest in project management software
• Ability to quickly solve a problem, even if it means doing so in an unorthodox way
• Assertive and comfortable with direct client communication, and the ability to be at once brief and comprehensive when writing emails
• Basic knowledge of HTML and keeping a blog (the "tech" side of blogging)
• Interest in web trends and technologies
• Experience with taking screenshots, cropping, and basic image editing
• Familiarity with Excel and formulas is a must
• We use Google products such as Adsense, Analytics, and Docs daily, so more points if you are familiar with them.
• Banner trafficking experience or knowledge of DFP or another ad server is very helpful, but not necessary.

How to Apply

This is a full time position at Gawker Media's NYC headquarters with full benefits, including everything from unlimited time off with a sabbatical after four years and fully paid medical insurance to lunch and breakfast once a week.

Send an email to coordinatorjobs AT gawker DOT com with the following in text of email:

• Introductory note - why would you be a great fit for Gawker?
• Resume pasted in plaintext in the body of the email (no attachments, please!)
• A link to your twitter, personal blog or website, if you happen to have one
• A list of your daily web habits and preferred information sources (not our sites!)
• Your solution for the following scenario: So you're a pizza delivery person. But you just showed up to a customer's house, knocked on the door, and realized you left the pie back at the restaurant. Sh*t! What do you say and do to make it right for your customer?

There are tons of over-funded, under-used startups that make much better targets.

All positions are in our New York headquarters, unless otherwise indicated:

• Account Coordinator
• Associate Video Editor, Kotaku.com
• Front End Developer (Budapest)
• Marketing Associate
• Sales Planner

We offer our salaried employees an industry-leading benefits offering — everything from unlimited time off with a sabbatical after four years and fully paid medical insurance to lunch and breakfast once a week. Learn more >>

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• The Purpose of Gawker Media
• Inexperience Required

We offer our full-time US-based employees a robust benefits package, including:

Fully paid medical insurance
For employees in our New York Office, we cover 100% of the premiums for medical insurance, including coverage for domestic partners, spouses, and families. Outside of New York, we cover the great majority of coverage for all groups.

We also offer dental, vision and life insurance, as well as short and long term disability.

Time off when you need it — and a sabbatical after four years.
PTO, Personal Day, Sick Days? Doesn't matter: we don't formally track time off — take time off when you need it in consultation with your Manager.

After four years of continuous employment, employees are eligible for a sabbatical — one month paid time off, in addition to whatever time off you'd otherwise take that year.

401k with 3% Gawker contribution
We'll help you save for the future with a 401k plan. And after one year, we'll contribute 3% of your entire compensation, on top of any contributions you make.

Gorgeous SoHo office with weekly breakfast and lunch and regular staff events
Time Out New York called our 10,000 sq ft headquarters one of the best offices in New York City. We provide breakfast and lunch to all staff in the New York office once a week. During warmer months, our 5,000 sq ft roof deck is home from everything from meetings to movie screenings. (Ask about the Entertainment Committee!)

Discounts at Equinox and around the neighborhood
We'll pay for half your Equinox membership — and give you access to discounts at everywhere from Zipcar to local SoHo restaurants.

Commuter Benefits Program
Have money deducted directly from your pay check on a pre-tax basis (saving you 25% to 40%, depending on your tax rate), which you can use for public transit and parking costs.

Referral Bonus
Many of our best employees come from referrals. Refer a friend to an open position and get $1,500 after 90 days.

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Licensing Agreements
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• Your post may be selected to be featured on another Kinja site by a staff member or editor

• Any Kinja user can repost any content you create to their own Kinja blog, however it will link to your blog

• If you post a favorable review of a company or its product, the company may pay us to feature your post across Kinja

“Representative Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, is trying to introduce an amendment to a stopgap measure to finance the government through the rest of the fiscal year that would prevent Mr. Obama from using federal money to transport himself to and from golf outings until the White House resumed its tours.”

White House Tours Halted Over Cuts; Congress Says, ‘We’re Open’ [New York Times]

BBC’s Come Fly With Me — a fascinating documentary on Pan Am, narrated by a Bond Girl

Here's my favorite:

4,000 workers would be furloughed every day at the F.A.A., causing flight backups.

What's yours?

It’s an article of faith among low-tax advocates that income tax increases aimed at the rich simply drive them away. As Stuart Varney put it on Fox News: “Look at what happened in Britain. They raised the top tax rate to 50 percent, and two-thirds of the millionaires disappeared in the next tax year. Same things are happening in France. People are leaving where the top tax rate is 75 percent. Same thing happened in Maryland a few years ago. New millionaire’s tax, the millionaires disappeared. You’ve got exactly the same thing in California.”

That, at least, is what low-tax advocates want us to think, and on its face, it seems to make sense. But it’s not the case. It turns out that a large majority of people move for far more compelling reasons, like jobs, the cost of housing, family ties or a warmer climate. At least three recent academic studies have demonstrated that the number of people who move for tax reasons is negligible, even among the wealthy.

The Myth of the Rich Who Flee From Taxes, New York Times

If you love spy novels like I do, I recommend this non-fiction thriller about the final years of the KGB/CIA rivalry.

The first reports about the death of Prisoner X leaked out in 2010, both in Israel and the United States, where a blogger identified the mystery man as a former Iranian general. Government censors immediately forced an Israeli news site to remove two items related to Prisoner X — and journalists were interrogated about it by the police.

On Tuesday, after an extensive Australian television report identifying Prisoner X as an Australian father of two who became an Israeli spy, the prime minister’s office summoned Israeli editors to a rare meeting to remind them of the court order blocking publication of anything connected to the matter.

It remains unclear what Prisoner X might have done to warrant such extreme treatment — and such extreme secrecy, which human rights groups have denounced as violating international law. What is clear is that the modern media landscape makes the Israeli censorship system established in the 1950s hopelessly porous: the Australian report quickly made the rounds on social media, prompting outraged inquiries from opposition lawmakers on the floor of Parliament.

More at NYTimes.

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The bottom line is that there's a lot of debt here. The A+E Networks and Verizon spectrum sales account for $5.6 billion of ready cash, and the company’s margins are comfortably wide, but of course it’s also a huge operation that has to have a certain amount of liquidity to function. It’s a safe bet that, at the very least, the ~$3 billion in bonds just issued are a part of this package, not to mention the $4 billion in newly announced senior notes and some part of the other debt issued over the last two years.

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As we plan for our continued growth, Gawker Media's Operations Group is seeking a People Operations Coordinator to oversee employee operations, including payroll, benefits, the new hire process, and more. The ideal candidate has several years' experience in an accounting or human resources role, but is looking to up their game and take ownership of all things process relating to employees.

Is this you or someone you know? More details: People Operations Coordinator, Jobs at Gawker