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HuffPo reports that former RMN staffers are launching an on-line newsmagazine, called the Rocky Mountain Independent, starting Monday, July 6th
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
No word as to who the backers are, but they have enough funds to last 3-months. The contributing staff looks kind of thin but Kevin Flynn, Robert Denerstein and Drew Litton are on the masthead.
A lot was made of In Denver Times, which failed before it started. What’s different about this version? Why so little talk about it? Did I miss something?
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I miss their funny papers.
We have no word, right now, on whether they’ll be able to afford the syndication rights ($) for them.
And Mike Rosen back?
Rosen I can do without.
clueless they are about they web
If they try an approach substantially different from just repeating the newspaper model on the web, then it has a chance.
Last Saturday, an announcement was made that stated iwantmyrocky.com had morphed into a non-profit organization.
On the RMI website, it states that iwantmyrocky.com will be “partners and friends.”
Is a 21st century news medium about to give birth in Colorado?
Here’s a couple of suggestions
CL is extremely closed about external search engines and such. If you find some on the web, there is a good chance that they have already been made ineffective. I went through this a couple of years ago.
CL discourages interactions by mail, they want to encourage community, live, that is. They seem to be able to monitor the system so that when a nationwide search takes place, they are onto it and kibosh the software.
I think links would be fine, but then anyone reading an online newspaper surely knows about CL.
Not only don’t worry about if what you are doiing is “journalism” as normally defined – be very worried if it is viewed as journalism. Pretty much by definition whatever is successful won’t be viewed as journalism because journalism as practiced today is no longer economically viable.
huffpo is involved
Worldnet is awful. The Times is much more of a news source than HP.
Off to the beach before long to check out the bevy of beauties for my benefit. I think there is another B word I could have used……
A bevy of beatiful, buxom babes, bathing on beaches. Go before big, bad, hurricanes blow in and burden you with ballooning bisasters 🙂
…and I realized today out there I left off bikinied. Still leaves two other B words….
To give HuffPo some credit, Nico Pitney has been the go-to guy for the best news round-up on Iran since the election crisis began. I don’t know how much he’s slept, but it can’t be nearly enough for good health.
I think he was easily the #1 source for news on Iran. And I thinkt hat is why the MSM was so upset about his being asked a question at Obama’s news conference – because in a weeks work he had clearly earned it. And that meant their years working their way up the ladder was matched by 1 person doing a great job – for a week.
It’s like Michael Yon’s reporting – way beyond what you get from the MSM.
Great source to check every day, especially when the rest of the media is doing nothing but covering the scandal du jour.
Obama’s team gave them a “hook” for the criticism by soliciting Pitney for a question before the presser.
Of course, ti wasn’t a question that the WH had prepared, or even one that Pitney prepared… The White House asked Pitney to solicit a question from the Iranian people he had contact with online… Heaven forbid that The People get involved in actually asking tough questions of the world’s leaders… That’s the job of The Press.
I would like the full page display ads as links on the pages. Every few months I have the opportunity to pick up a print newspaper (such as the Post) and I find the full page ads to peruse. Usually I will go the the store within the week to shop. Without the ads I do not shop.
I have not understood why the newspapers and magazines have two sets of ad displays.