Nick Denton

from Profile · host BBC Radio 4

n 2002 the British journalist Nick Denton created Gawker in the US, a website which made its name breaking news and celebrity gossip. Last week a US court ordered the site to pay Hulk Hogan $140 million in damages, after Gawker ran a clip from a sex tape involving the wrestling star. Mark Coles profiles the man friends describe as being "ahead of his time" and a "visionary". But Mark also discovers how, as a journalist, Nick Denton reveals other people's secrets, while carefully guarding his own. Producers: Katie Inman and David Rhodes.

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