AOL Huffington Post Merger
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:06 pm
From the LA Times' Timothy Rutten:
Colin
The Huffington Post also puts pressure on its contributors, so I think we can expect that Arianna will adopt and adapt to the above quite easily, and to the detriment of intelligent journalism. Ach consolidation, oy.Memo from AOL Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong on where his company's journalism is going. It's fairly chilling reading, ordering the company's editors to evaluate all future stories on the basis of "traffic potential, revenue potential, edit quality and turnaround time." All stories, it stressed, are to be evaluated according to their "profitability consideration." All AOL's journalistic employees will be required to produce "five to 10 stories per day."
Colin