Windy Citizen blows them away
Congratulations to all of you who work on The Windy Citizen, which received a well deserved tip of the hat yesterday from Steve Johnson at the Tribune. Johnson’s review was then picked up by Romenesko at Poynter Online. See also Romenesko’s link to Tim McGuire’s profile of Windy Citizen founder Brad Flora which includes good advice for all:
“Smart entrepreneurs (or, gasp, traditional media companies) are going to gather hundreds of these bright thinkers, give them that $100 grand and take half the profits. That’s the real future of news unless newspapers hire the Brad Floras out there and let them run. Their innovation and experimentation needs to be encouraged and nurtured, not stapled, spindled and mutilated to the point that they think like everyone else in a newsroom.”