henry copeland: + 1 || @nicknotned mentions @carr2n as Gawker's ideal editor: pllqt.it/ctbBCA #RIP Imagining Carr as Gawker's editor in chief. Q. You said recently that Ta-Nehisi Coates would be your dream Gawker executive editor. Why? What does he offer, or represent? A. I’m not going to talk about individual candidates. But we are looking for a mixture of news judgment, intellectual framework and humanity. The ideal candidate was actually a colleague of yours, David Carr, now sadly no longer with us. Q. Is humanity an important component of journalism? A. Yes, David Carr was described as the most human of humans. Let the writers run a little wild, but they need to be saved from their own selves by editors with a conscience. - www.nytimes.com gawker RIP carr Send