• by John Capone , June 16, 2010

When asked about the recent controversy over Gawker Media's Gizmodo's paying for a stolen Apple iPhone G4 prototype, Gawker Publisher Niock Denton had a simple answer for Joe Mandese: "We will do anything -- legal -- for a story."

TV execs seem to tie themselves into knots about paying for news content, but in the backend do pay sometimes, Denton says. "Our attitude is it's way better we just say so. What's it cost?"