Gossip Columns

I've noticed a trend amongst start-up media. Gossip. It starts as a relatively 'normal' obsession with hearsay and rumour. After all, the backroom chatter of Westminster has been the fuel for British newspapers' political pages for centuries, and so it's a well trodden path for the media at large. But recently, in the start-up and VC world, it seems to have metastasised into something much more…