Arianna invades Chicago
Last night at one of the Guardian’s Future of Journalism sessions they are running for staff (and putting online), editor Alan Rusbridger had a conversation with Arianna Huffington and I do believe this is new: Arianna is going local. She’ll devote one editor to curating news and blog posts in the market. Jemima Kiss beat me to blogging this (she must have had less of the red wine at the dinner afterwards). She just added a green section and will launch books, international, and sports soon.
“We are an aspiring newspaper,” she said.
I was just with Emily Bell, head of digital at the Guardian, and she used the right word to describe this: Agile. Arianna and company decide to start taking over the world and they just do it. Big, old newspapers plan and fret instead. Want to offer readers a new area of coverage? Start with one editor, find out what’s available, and get moving. Agile.
Tags: hyperlocal, local, newarchitecture, newbiznews, newsinnovation
June 19th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Ariana does not pay a majority of her bloggers. How long can that model last?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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June 20th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
in answer to anon #2 above-
as long as they want to contribute, i guess.