13 posts and columns on Columbia Journalism Review

You've Got Labor Problems, Again! AOL's HuffPo Gripe Seems Very Familiar.

in Media on February 11, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)

What Happened to the New York Times’s Web Ads?

in Media on July 24, 2009 at 8:29 am PT

The paper’s Internet operations used to be a bright spot. But last quarter Web advertising dropped more than 15 percent. What gives?
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