From: About.com Journalism
A couple of interesting tidbits come out of Daniel Lyons' Newsweek
piece on Arianna Huffington. Most interesting is the fact that for
all Huffington's supposed digital age savvy, her HuffingtonPost
site is having the same problem every other news website is having
- namely, figuring out how to monetize content (in plain English,
how to make money). ... Read Full Post
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