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Gawker Media Sites
Owner: | Nick Denton (owner of Gawker Media) | ||||
Contact: | His twitter and Email. | ||||
Your Strategy: | Let him know what his writers have been up to and that you and many others intend to email the sponsor of any gaming related content about it (the site has a content sponsorship system). | ||||
Site: | Kotaku | ||||
Editor in Chief: | Stephen Totilo | ||||
Contact: | Refuses to take disciplinary action against his writers who have been shown to violate the sites ethical standards. Contacting him is futile. Contact his boss instead. | ||||
Nathan Grayson | Slept with one of the people he promoted on the site | ||||
Luke Plunkett | |||||
Patricia Hernandez | Promoted at least one of her girlfriends using the site | ||||
Evan Narcisse | The Article: The Problem With 'The Casual Cruelty' Against Women in Video Games | ||||
Yannick LeJacq | The Article: "Calling the derision of Anita Sarkeesian rational debate is an insult to both her and the idea of debating ideas." | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform their sponsors that the writers on this site have been known to promote their lovers and friends and their games under the guise of honest journalism. That Stephen Totilo has done nothing to stop this. That a number of them have been insulting the gaming public for whom they write and comparing them to terrorists as well as donating money to people they review. Finally, let the sponsors know that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. They did so with the rest of Gawker Media and that this had alienated you as a reader. Insist action is taken. Also inform Stephen Totilo that you have sent those emails. | ||||
Site: | Jezebel | ||||
Editor in chief: | Emma Carmichael | ||||
Contact: | Her twitter and Email (Pointless, giant dyke-bag feminazi) | ||||
Your Strategy: | Let her know what is going on and that you and others will be informing her boss and her sponsors. | ||||
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Callie Beusman | The Article: Misogynistic Trolls Drive Feminist Video Game Critic From Her Home | ||||
Your Strategy: | Let the sponsors know that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. They did so with the rest of Gawker Media and that this had alienated you as a reader. Insist action is taken. |
VOX Media
Owner: | Jerome Armstrong, Tyler Bleszinski, Markos Moulitsas | ||||
Contact: | Jerome's twitter, Tyler's twitter | ||||
Your Strategy: | Let them know what their writers have been up to (nepotism, donating money to game devs they review and attacking gamers) and that you and many others intend to email their sponsors and no longer use their sites. | ||||
Site: | Polygon | ||||
Editor in chief: | Christopher Grant | ||||
Contact: | His twitter and Email | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform him of what has went on and that you will be contacting both the owners of VOX and their sponsors along with others. | ||||
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Michael McWhertor | The Article: Fez developer Polytron hacked in ongoing game developer harassment effort | ||||
Ben Kuchera | The Article: Developer Zoe Quinn offers real-world advice, support for dealing with online harassment | ||||
Your Strategy: | Ben Kuchera wrote an article promoting a game dev (Zoe Quinn) that he is supporting on a monthly basis. When faced with this being a gross violation of journalistic integrity and conflicts of interests, Chris Grant (the editor in chief) made a statement that he refuses to do anything about it. This is what their sponsors need to know. | ||||
Site: | The Verge | ||||
Owners and Editors: | Joshua Topolsky, Marty Moe, Nilay Patel | ||||
Contact: | Topolsky on twitter, Moe on twitter. | ||||
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Chris Plante | The Article: An awful week to care about video games | ||||
Your Strategy: | Chris just moved there after leaving Polygon. He tool part in the "Gamers is dead" thing as well. |
Observer/The Guardian
Parent Corporation: | Observer/The Guardian | ||||
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Site: | The Guardian | ||||
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Jenn Frank | The Article: How to attack a woman who works in video gaming | ||||
Kevin Rawlinson | The Article: Gamers take a stand against misogyny after death threats (BBC but he also writes from The Guardian) | ||||
Your Strategy: | Writer failed to disclose her personal relationship with Zoe Quinn and, on her behalf, took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. Claim that this had aliened you as a reader. Inform them of all of the above and insist action is taken. | ||||
Site: | Betabeat | ||||
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Jack Smith IV | The Article: Feminist Video Blogger Is Driven From Home by Death Threats | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to rescue themselves. |
Others
CEO: | Greg Tito | ||||
Contact: | His twitter | ||||
Your Strategy: | In this case the owner of the site is actually taking action. However, inform him that some of the people on his site are still posting attacks on gamers on twitter after having been explicitly told by him to stop. |
Parent Company: | UBM | ||||
Contact: | PR department | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform them that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. When one of the writers of the site wrote an article about this he was let go. They had thereby alienated you and most of their reading public. Then the site hid its list of sponsors to try and prevent you from contacting them, which you now intend to do. | ||||
Editor in Chief: | Kris Graft | ||||
Owner: | |||||
Leigh Alexander | The Article: 'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over. | ||||
Contact: | Contacting the corrupt owner and editor of the site is futile. Contact her boss instead and tell him she fierd one of her writrs for writing an article exposing other game journalists of corruption and then tried to hide the information used to contact UBM. She also uses the site to promote people represented by her PR company. | ||||
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Kris Ligman | Article Sarkeesian and the Demise of Gamers | ||||
Devin Wilson | Article: A Guide to Ending "Gamers" | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves.
Furthermore, when one of their writers (a professional with 20 years of experience) wrote an article criticizing this he was fired for not falling in line. Then the site hid its list of sponsors to try and prevent you from contacting them. Say this had alienated you as a reader. Insist action is taken. |
Contact: | Complaint department | ||||
CEO: | Mike Perlis | ||||
Contact: | His twitter | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform both Forbes and its CEO and its sponsors that some of its "contributes" have been making hateful tweets directed at gamers and that, as a result, their site has been blacklisted by the gaming community until action is taken. Demand that these two no longer contribute to this site. | ||||
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Eric Kain | The Article: GamerGate: A Closer Look At The Controversy Sweeping Video Games | ||||
Paul Tassi | The Article: The Truth About Video Game Journalism |
Parent Company: | Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas | ||||
Contact: | Contact ADC here | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform the sponsor that Faraci has been making tweets comparing people who play video games to ISIS because they complained about his and his co-worker's lack of journalistic integrity. Inform them that he has earned the disdain of most of the internet and that you and everyone you know will no longer be visiting this site and suggest that he is fired. | ||||
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Devin Faraci | |||||
Your Strategy: | Inform the sponsor that Faraci has been making tweets comparing people who play video games to ISIS because they complained about his and his co-worker's lack of journalistic integrity. Inform them that he has earned the disdain of most of the internet and that you and everyone you know will no longer be visiting this site and suggest that he is fired. |
Owners: | Kieron Gillen, Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol, John Walker | ||||
Contact: | Gillen's tumblr, Walker's Email, Alec's tumblr, Rossignol's twitter | ||||
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Nathen Grayson | The Article: Mostly Indescribable: Depression Quest | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform the sponsor that Nathan Grayson had a sexual relationship with someone he uses position as a gaming journalist to promote and wrote insulting tweets and attack articles against the gaming community as revenge for being criticized for it. |
Contact: | Complaint department | ||||
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Tim Colwill | The Article: Announcement: Readers who feel threatened by equality no longer welcome | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. |
Editor in Chief: | Ian Miles Cheong (don't bother contacting, corrupt as his writers) | ||||
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Stephen Daly | The Article: The Fine Young Capitalists’ Seemingly Noble Goals Don’t Excuse them from Scrutiny | ||||
Contact: | Email their admin. Maybe he will care | ||||
Your Strategy: | Tell them that you are appalled that this man wrote an article attacking a charity collecting money for colon cancer to support someone (Zoe Quinn) who is suspected of being a friend of his. |
Editor in Chief: | Rocco Castoro | ||||
Contact | Rocco Castoro's Email | ||||
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Allegra Ringo | The Article: MEET THE FEMALE GAMER MASCOT BORN OF ANTI-FEMINIST INTERNET DRAMA | ||||
Mike Pearl | The Article: THIS GUY'S EMBARRASSING RELATIONSHIP DRAMA IS KILLING THE 'GAMER' IDENTITY | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. Mike is guilty of this without a doubt. Considering Allegra's article followed close she is a suspect as well. |
Contact: | Complaint department | ||||
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Patrick O' Rourke | The Article: Sexism, misogyny and online attacks: It’s a horrible time to consider yourself a ‘gamer’ | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site's technology took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. |
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Victoria McNally | The Article: A Disheartening Account Of The Harassment Going On In Gaming Right Now (And How Adam Baldwin Is Involved) | ||||
Your Strategy: |
Parent Company Complaint Department: | J2 Global | ||||
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Jenna Pitcher | The Article: Hundreds of Developers Are Fed Up With The Hate | ||||
Paul Dean | The Article: Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Why It Matters | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that both these people wrote various positive articles about developers with whom they had personal friendships, possibly at their request, for various websites including IGN. You will not longer be visiting this site. |
Contact: | Robert Ritter, site's director | ||||
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Gordon Brillon | The Article: Opinion: #Gamergate a misogynistic embarrassment for gamers | ||||
Elizabeth Garcia | The Article: Opinion: Video game industry needs to embrace women | ||||
Your Strategy: | Both writers have published insulting attack articles accusing a movement demanding honesty of hating women. You are hurt and offended and will not be reading this site anymore. |
CEO: | Jarret Myer | ||||
Contact: | Jarret Myer on twitter | ||||
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Dan Seitz | The Article: Why #GamerGate Is A Lie Gamers Need To Stop Telling Themselves | ||||
Your Strategy: | Dan Seitz has written several attack articles directed at the gamer community for requesting more transparency and less conflicts of interests in game journalism. He has also made a number of tweets that you and your fellow gamers find offensive. You will no longer be visiting this site. |
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Lauren C. Williams | The Article: Feminist Video Game Critic Driven Out Of Her Home By Death Threats From Gamers | ||||
Your Strategy: |
Owner: | Etienne Uzac | ||||||
Contact: | Try his twitter | Writers: | |||||
Zoe Mintz | The Article: Feminist Gaming Critic Anita Sarkeesian Facing Death Threats | ||||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. |
Contact: | Site's complaint department | ||||
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Britt Hayes | The Article: Reel Women: How Misogyny in Gamer Culture Hurts All of Us | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. |
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Casey Johnston | The Article: The death of the “gamers” and the women who “killed” them | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. |
Contact: | Complaint department | ||||
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Jeffrey Matulef | The Article: jam reality show cancelled as indies wouldn't put up with its s*** | ||||
Your Strategy: | Jeffrey Matulef wrote and article denouncing the Polaris Game Jam and costing its creator his job. The only source for the information in the article (Zoe Quinn) is now believed to have intentionally lied to cause damage to the event for personal reasons. Jeffrey Matulef and everyone else who reported on the even based only on her testimony is guilty of doing very poor research that ended up losing huge amounts of money that would have went to charity. |
Editor: | John Avlon on twitter | ||||
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Tauriq Moosa | The Article: Fanboys, White Knights, and the Hairball of Online Misogyny | ||||
Arthur Chu | The Article: It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Why Are Gamers So Angry? | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. Also, these two writers have compared gamers to nazis and said that gamers have no friends. As gamers you and all your friends are offended and no longer want to return to this site. You are hurt by these statements and demand they are both dismissed. |
Editor in Chief: | Christopher Frizzelle | ||||
Contact: | Christopher Frizzelle's Email | ||||
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Anna Minard | The Article: Anita Sarkeesian Threatened with Rape and Murder for Daring to Keep Critiquing Video Games | ||||
Your Strategy: | Inform sponsors that the site took part in a coordinated PR stunt to write articles attacking gamers as a response to a demand from the gaming public for writers with conflicts of interests to recuse themselves. |
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Joseph bernstein | Article: Gaming Is Leaving “Gamers” Behind, Why The Gamer Rebellion Won’t Last Very Long | ||||
Your Strategy: | BuzzFeed CEO has promised to fire all gamers reporting for him. No need to contact his sponsors. Just contact him to thank him, tell him he made the right choice and remind him to keep his word. |
Other Organizations
Event: | Independent Game Festival | ||||
What it is: | A contest for Indie game developers | ||||
Why is it on this list: | #1. Maya Kramer, PR agent working for SilverString Media, slept with the CEO of the contest and used their personal relationship to make sure all the finalists in the contest were people represented by her firm, including games made (in part) by SilverString's CEO and CCO. It has also been proven that the CEO of IGF and the rest of the judges did not play at least some of the entries in the contest that were not represented by SilverString. #2. Part of a massive racketeering scheme by "Indie Fund" involving Fez |
Event: | IndieCade | ||||
What it is: | A contest for Indie game developers | ||||
Why is it on this list: | #1. Awarded "Depression Quest" with a prize knowing Zoe Quinn had slept with two of its judges. #2. Part of a massive racketeering scheme by "Indie Fund" involving Fez |
Company: | SilverString Media | ||||
What it is: | Gaming PR company | ||||
Why is it on this list: | #1. Manipulated both IndieCade and IGF to have all its clients and staff win wards using one of its employee's sexual relationships and connections. 2# Used its parent company's connections to major gaming news sites to suppress the story. |