Posts tagged with 'Mayhill Fowler'
If you're the head of a struggling newspaper, The Huffington Post has
an enviable business model. While content production is almost always the greatest cost in running a publishing/media business, it largely relies on the writing of an
unpaid army of contributors. The value proposition the HuffPo offers
them: exposure to a very large audience.
It's a model that has been the source of controversy. After all, the
HuffPo is a for-profit business, yet it doesn't pay the vast majority
of the individuals who labor for it. That's an especially interesting
thing for a company founded by a person who wrote a book entitled "Pigs
at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are
Undermining America."
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by Patricio Robles
29 September 2010 14:24pm
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