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Some of the more popular Hubbers can earn more than a thousand dollars a month and they own their own content -- a different model from Demand Media, which commissions articles from more than 17,000 writers. HubPages: A Different Kind Of Content Farm - Empowering Writers - SVW

To fund its efforts, the New York-based online media company has raised $37 million from angel investors such as Lerer–the largest individual shareholder, followed closely by Huffington–and venture firms such as Greycroft Partners, Softbank Capital and Oak Investment Partners. AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

AOL and Huffington post – models for big news media in the digital age? « The Equity Kicker Print media circulations are falling fast, their classifieds revenues have collapsed and they are mostly failing (and will continue to fail) in their attempts to charge on the web. I have often cited Huffington Post and Techcrunch as models for the future, with their lower cost approach to journalism, but the question I have struggled with a bit is: how does this scale, and how will quality journalism get funded?

The Atlantic Turns a Profit, With an Eye on the Web - NYTimes.com Smith, president of the Atlantic Media Company, who arrived at the magazine’s offices in the Watergate complex in 2007 with a mission to stanch the red ink. “In essence, we brainstormed the question, ‘What would we do if the goal was to aggressively cannibalize ourselves?’

Hold the front page: Financial Times on iPad does a cool £1m in ad revenue On that note, according to the report, Hughes told the summit that more than 400,000 subscribers have signed up for the iPad app and that it now accounts for 10% of the paper’s new digital subscriptions.

Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters | Monday Note My daily media routine starts on Techmeme .

The Way I Work: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch I wake up in a pissed-off mood. I'm not a morning person.

I know very well how tough it is to make money in the media industry today. It's not only the old media that is suffering but the new media is too, and conferences have become a very important revenue stream. But conference organizers used to be conference organizers and not media publications competing with other media publications. MediaWatch Monday: Media Wars Over Conference Coverage Hurts Startups - SVW

Did the Web kill journalism, and will the iPad bring it back? | ZDNet The iPad has little to do with it. The web, typified by Google, skimmed the newspapers' stories, but the advertising revenues went to Google. Only when Google (and others who do the same) pay back some of their revenues to the originators of the stories, will there be an incentive to keep generating investigative journalism.

Google has been quietly testing a new paywall system for publishers it is calling "Newspass". Guest Post: Here's Why Google's Paywall Will Work (And The Times' Will Fail) - SVW

We're excited to announce that we've just raised another round of financing, courtesy of New York-based RRE Ventures and our existing investors. This capital will help us continue to expand the site and bring you many of the things you have been asking for--and faster than we would be able to develop them under our own power. We've raised about $3 million this time, which is a vast sum relative to the couch change we've been running on since we launched three years ago ($2.7 million in total). Business Insider, Turbocharged!

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In recent weeks, The Washington Post has launched two new projects following a model closer to HuffPo — where a small number of professionals are paid to curate the work of many more unpaid writers — than its traditional print roots. In the competitive world of Washington news, it’s another example of the Post trying something new to compete with the startups that, not so long ago, weren’t viewed as much of a direct threat. WaPo wades into HuffPo’s unpaid content model » Nieman Journalis

Yesterday, we poked fun at the New York Times's latest discussion of how hard people in successful online media companies work . On Our Third Birthday, Some Thoughts On Digital Media And The Future Of The Newspaper Business

Henry Blodget's Risky Bet on the Future of News - BusinessWeek And not long after Blodget sought his redemption by becoming a member of the media, his old nemesis, Spitzer, tried a similar trick with plans to host a new show on CNN. Now Blodget finds himself the proprietor of a website that often makes the editorial practices of other gossip outlets look fusty and conservative by comparison.

As I walked in the headquarters of the Jawa Pos —the flagship newspaper of one of South East Asia’s largest print media empires—I was wondering just how screwed my profession is; globally I mean. Is the death of print a world-wide certainty or merely an American reality? After all a lot of “old economy” businesses are thriving in emerging markets thanks to Greenfield advantages and rising middle class economics. Is Print Media Doomed Worldwide or Just In The US?