Dealbreaker Press
"Wall Street's Junior Set Tells All: Banks Meet Blogs" (December 05, 2006)
Elizabeth Spiers' DealBreaker is among the most substantial, happily trading info about traders' perks, bonuses, hirings, and firings. Among the reasons to visit is the site's extensive listing of other Wall Street blogs. UndertheCounter.net works the same side of The Street as DealBreaker, reporting, "Who's getting paid, laid, hired and fired."
"Wall Street's Junior Set Tells All: Banks Meet Blogs" (May 25, 2006)
Leveraged Sell-Out, DealBreaker and a half-dozen more online diaries are gaining popularity among young bankers. The sites blend blogging, a regular habit for Wall Street's college- age summer interns and entry-level employees, with an older tradition of insider memoirs such as "Liar's Poker,'' Michael Lewis's tale of Salomon Brothers bond traders in the 1980s.
"30 Under 30: Elizabeth Spiers" (May 2006)
The name Elizabeth Spiers is practically synonymous with "blog". After working as a buy-side analyst, Elizabeth delivered sound bites for the media on Mediabistro.com and Gawker.com, which she helped found with Nick Denton. Though that was fun and all, she really wanted to use her knowledge of Wall Street in the same vain. Now she does just that on Dealbreaker.com...
"Wall Street Gets Snarky" (April 21, 2006)
Now Spiers, 29, has combined her business acumen, eye for gossip, and considerable writing ability to create Dealbreaker.com, an "online business tabloid and Wall Street gossip blog", which she launched last month. It's the first of what will be a commercial blog network published and operated by Spiers - much like Nick Denton's Gawker Media, which includes sites like the Hollywood gossip blog Defamer and the gadget blog Gizmodo. Spiers admits it's not exactly a new idea. "What we're doing is a traditional media model," she says. "We're just creating content and selling ads against it".
"A New Deal for Gawker's Spiers" (April 17, 2006)
Call it The Daily Show for the CNBC set. That's how Elizabeth Spiers, a former New York magazine reporter and founding editor of infamous celebrity-gossip blog Gawker, describes her new, satirical Wall Street blog, DealBreaker. "The press does not talk about the things you talk about at cocktail parties," says the 29-year-old Duke graduate, who worked as an investment analyst for several hedge funds before launching Gawker in 2002. "Most mainstream financial coverage seems to imply you need to cover business in a deadly serious manner"...
What's Online (April 8, 2006)
DealBreaker operates on the idea that Wall Street types are at least as worthy of mockery as the media types Gawker makes fun of, or the politicians Wonkette takes on. The content bears this out. On his new CNBC talk show, Michael Eisner shows himself to be ''a charisma black hole,'' Ms. Spiers wrote. ''On a scale of one to charismatic, Eisner is a negative 10 Clintons. It's painful.'' Wall Street may be hungry for such material -- at least the busy comments sections seems to indicate that. Some of the most popular posts, in terms of reader comments, are written by ''Muffie Benson-Perella,'' an obnoxious, deliciously fictional columnist who wields her credentials and whose name and bio manage to make fun of about half a dozen people and institutions in fewer than 70 words...
Blogger Aims to Lift Lid on Wall Street Earnings (April 5, 2006)
Dealbreaker founder Elizabeth Spiers, the first editor of celebrity and media gossip blog Gawker.com, said she hoped to start breaking original news about Wall Street personalities and scandals. "It could be anything you might talk about at a cocktail party," she said of the site's news ambitions..
Elizabeth Spiers: Launches Aren't Fun (April 5, 2006)
With Dealbreaker, Elizabeth Spiers - the founding editor of both Gawker and some of mediabistro's blogs - is at it again. This time, Spiers has her unapologetic periscope locked on the catty, sometimes-cantankerous world of Wall Street gossip.
Elizabeth Spiers: Blog Publishing is a 'Traditional Media Model' (March 27, 2006)
Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of the infamous media gossip blog Gawker, is planning to launch her own network of blogs. The first title, Dealbreaker, a Wall Street gossip blog, is set to open Wednesday.
The 'Daily Show' for Traders (March 24, 2006)
Insider dealing is about to take on a whole new meaning on Wall Street. The founding editor of New York's most popular media gossip blog is turning her attention to the money men...
Gawk At This (January 25, 2006)
ORIGINAL Gawker editrix Elizabeth Spiers is hoping to give her old employer a much-needed run for its money. Spiers will launch dealbreaker.com, a Wall Street gossip blog, in March..."To Protect and to Rock."
Gawker.com: Introducing Dealbreaker.com (January 25, 2006)
We're quite confident the site will be...interesting, and we're equally confident Spiers is smart...
Mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY: Elizabeth Spiers: Don't Stop Believing [In Blogs] (January 25, 2006)
Spiers is...no stranger to the heady world of Wall Street, seeing as she worked analyzing small-cap tech stocks for a hedge fund prior to kicking off her blogging career as the founding editor of Gawker.
...we, as always, wish Spiers the very best of luck in her new venture, with the confidence that she won't really need it.
Bloggers come to the Street, but is anyone reading? (February 9, 2006)
Spiers' track record suggest [sic] Dealbreaker will become the top site for Wall Street gossip in short order.
Blogs to Riches (February 20, 2006)
[Elizabeth Spiers] is arguably the most famous professional blogger, since she invented its dominant mode: a titillating post delivered with a snarky kicker, casual profanity, and genuine fan-girl enthusiasm - sonnets made of dirt.
