YC 2010 startup needs journalists as early users

Re:YC 2010 startup needs journalists as early users by ig1 on Monday March 01, 2010 @05:49PM (#1160012)

I'm no expert on this area, but from what I've seen ad revenues are nowhere near high enough to pay for decent journalism. If they were we wouldn't have the pay-wall debate.

Affiliate links tend to be a huge no-no because of conflicts of interest.

Publications generally only buy articles if they have first right of publication.

Suggesting someone can earn 30K-70K on the above basis seems over-optimistic to the point of being misleading.

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Re:YC 2010 startup needs journalists as early users by stealthyc2010 on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @06:36AM (#1161135)

Yes, we'll be working on the ad revenues. They certainly aren't high enough to support a massive media organization. They should be high enough to support a low-overhead one-man journalism show.

There are other revenue streams, too. It remains to be seen which is the best for us.

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