TOP BLOGS: NYT’S David Carr on new opportunities for journos
David Carr’s media column on mainstream journalists doing new media projects.
Content may or may not be king, but it’s mighty valuable. Journalists, who know a thing or two about its creation, are beginning to build sites that help them maintain custody of the content and, if all goes well, reap the rewards. Om Malik, a former writer for Business 2.0, has received backing for GigaOM.com, a technology news Web site that has broken a number of stories, and Rafat Ali, the former managing editor of The Silicon Alley Reporter, recently received funding for his company, which publishes PaidContent.org, a site that covers digital media news.
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The New York Times
July 24, 2006
A Sideline That Competes With a Byline
By David Carr
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/24/business/media/24carr.html
