Q&A: Betsy Morgan '90 | Colby Magazine | Summer 2008
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A Crack Opens in Huffpo's No-Pay Policy
Published 7/18/2008 by Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
Last fall, Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer confidently told USA Today that the links-and-rants site would never have to make room in its budget to pay its hundreds of bloggers. Or, rather, he said Huffpo already pays them -- in the coin of "visibility, promotion and distribution with a great company."
But that certitude was missing from an interview Huffpo CEO Betsy Morgan gave to her college alumni magazine recently. Asked, point blank, if the site has any plans to start paying, Morgan responded:
Not all of the plays have been written yet for this company. That said, we have a very good relationship with our bloggers; we're ...
Will HuffPo Pay its Bloggers Some Mythical Day in the Future? [New Media]
Published 7/18/2008 by Sheila at Gawker
... we’re unbelievably respectful of them. By blogging, they get terrific exposure and our brand gives them a unique platform. We’ve had a positive two-way relationship with them. Could that include money at some point? Sure. But it feels very 1993 to say, ‘Hey, it’s all about the check that I get at the end of the month.’ So incredibly, arrogantly out of touch. But hey, but this wouldn't be such a problem if people would start REFUSING TO WRITE FOR FREE! [Q&A;: Betsy Morgan]
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Study Finds Silver Lining in Newspaper Crisis
Published 7/21/2008 by Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
If you're a regular reader of blogs like this one, you might have concluded there's nothing positive to say about the current state of the newspaper industry.
So it's striking just how much good news there is to be found in a major study released today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. PEJ's researchers surveyed editors at hundreds of dailies for the report, "The Changing Newsroom: What Is Being Gained and What Is Being Lost in America's Daily Newspapers?"
To be sure, all the gloom and doom is in there -- the mass buyouts and layoffs, the shrinking newsholes, the plunging ad revenues. But despite all that -- or maybe because of it -- newspapers are ...
