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Monster.com guy is picking apart the newspaper

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The founder of Monster.com, Jeff Taylor, is planning the launch of an online obituary site. In the article, Taylor is quoted as saying that he’s built his career on migrating the newspaper to the web, piece by piece. The piece he’s missing is the obit section.

Twitter + Journalism

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Adding to Holly’s post about Twitter, new media blog, Read Write Web, has a piece up on how they use Twitter for journalism. I’ve got my Twitter account set up.

Blog ’till you drop

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Here is an interesting article from the New York Times. It looks into the lives of some really successful bloggers and how incredibly overworked they are. It also gives a good look into how blogs that make money operate, and how they compensate their writers.