Defamer Australia

Defamer Australia is an Australian celebrity gossip website. Like its Hollywood-based namesake, it covers movies, television and personalities; it also adds a dash of politics and retro pop culture. The site also features Hollywood content written by defamer.com's Mark Lisanti and Seth Abramovitch.

Defamer Australia's first editor is Jess McGuireref|ausculture, a 26-year-old Melbourne journalist known for her radio show on 3RRR and blog on Australian popular culture, Ausculture. Her blog, which largely featured Big Brother observations, is no longer updatedref|ausculture. Clem Bastow has also joined the Defamer Australia team as of mid 2007.

Defamer Australia launched on 22 April 2007 with live coverage of the Big Brother 2007 series launch. Its sister title, [http://www.gizmodo.com.au/ Gizmodo Australia] , launched a week earlier. The sites have a combined 200,000 readersref|theage.

It is published by Allure Media, a startup internet publisher that operates under license from Nick Denton's Gawker Mediaref|crikey. The Australian site is the first Defamer site outside North America.

References

# McGuire, Jess. [http://www.ausculture.com/ The Future of Ausculture] , "Ausculture.com", 20 April, 2007.
# McGuire, Jess. [http://www.ausculture.com/ Ausculture] , "Ausculture.com", 14 May, 2007.
# Griffin, Michelle. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/tattlers-on-line-for-celebrity-treatment/2007/04/28/1177460044970.html "Tattlers on line for celebrity treatment"] , "The Age", 29 April, 2007.
# Nethercote, Jane. [http://www.crikey.com.au/Media-and-Arts/20070427-Defamer-in-Oz.html "Look out, wonkettes: Defamer hits Oz"] , "Crikey", 27 April, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.defamer.com.au Defamer Australia]