Staci D. Kramer
Mar 24, 2011 7:15 AM
That was fast. Just shy of two years after launch, Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery Jr. have sold their “make journalism pay” business to someone who already makes money from publishing. Chicago-based R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. has acquired Journalism Online and its consumer-facing Press+ paid content…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 14, 2009 11:02 PM
How did Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery, Jr., wind up cofounding a venture to make online journalism pay? Or, in this case, Journalism Online, LLC. It dates as far back as the ‘90s when Hindery almost wound up owning a stake in Brill’s CourtTV joint venture only to…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 14, 2009 2:09 PM
The news business has problems and entrepreneur Steve Brill, former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz and cable guy-turned-investor Leo Hindery, Jr. think they have the answers. The three are founding Journalism Online, LLC, funded with an undisclosed amount by Hindery’s InterMedia Advisors, LLP, to provide news publishers with content-based…
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