From Nieman Reports: How The Root wants to fulfill the legacy of black media online
When Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and The Washington Post Company CEO Donald Graham launched The Root in 2008, their ambitions were anything but modest. "We wanted to create a daily black national — indeed, international — magazine, a medium on the Internet that would link black communities throughout the country, across class...
The Big Money Isn’t Enough. Slate Shuts Down Business Site After Two Years.
Fortune magazine launched during the Great Depression, and it's still with us today. But The Big Money, a business site launched by Slate during the dark days of September 2008, is going away. The smart site never got much traction. But then again, it didn't seem to get that much support.
