WaPo wades into HuffPo’s unpaid content model
A top news and politics site is packaging content written by unpaid bloggers, hoping to engage its audience, give writers a platform, and make some money selling ads. No, I’m not talking about The...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: TBD takes off, Demand Media’s profit-less past, and...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] A high-profile entry into the local news scene: One of the most...
View ArticleNetwork effects: The Houston Chronicle’s Eric Berger on newspapers and blog...
Last week, I wrote about the Guardian’s new network of science blogs, which — in a first for the paper — is allowing its (growing) cadre of bloggers to publish directly to the Guardian’s site. The...
View ArticlePipeline: In Pittsburgh, the Post-Gazette builds a thematic network around...
The Marcellus Shale is the kind of story that gets editors excited: big corporate players colliding with public officials, natural resources, health risks, and the lives, livelihoods, and homes of...
View ArticleHow ‘Grammar Girl’ turned a single hobby podcast into a growing media network
Mignon Fogarty thought she’d arrived at the podcasting scene too late. It was 2006, and as a science and technical writer, she was trying to promote a science podcast she hosted, without much success....
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