Mar 8, 2011 7:00 AM
The Slate Group, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Co.‘s online-only unit house Slate.com, The Root.com, and ForeignPolicy.com, says that combined ad revenue from all those sites gained 33 last year. In an interview with paidContent, John Alderman, The Slate Group’s GM and the flagship site’s publisher, and Jacob Weisberg, Chairman…
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Jul 30, 2010 2:32 PM
Washington Post-owned Slate Group is closing down The Big Money, the business commentary spinoff it launched two years ago, saying the site wasn’t profitable. The belief when The Big Money launched in 2008 was that the financial crisis augered well for a business media site with Slate‘s “authority and tone.”…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Money, Companies, Washington Post, slate
May 5, 2010 5:59 PM
Not all of the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company’s publications are seeing a long list of declines: On the same day that its parent announced plans to sell struggling print Newsweek and Newsweek.com, the online-only Slate Group says that revenues were up 52 percent in Q1. The company didn’t break…
Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Online News, Companies, Washington Post, slate
Mar 24, 2010 1:00 AM
WashingtonPost.com wasn’t the first Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) outlet to go for the gold—or at least some silver—with a paid iPhone app: Sibling Slate hit the iTunes store ahead of the newspaper with its own $1.99 app. Unlike the newspaper, which plans to reevaluate its price for next year,…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, jacob weisberg, slate
Feb 26, 2009 6:52 PM
paidContent has learned that Peggy White, the former GM of *Yahoo* Finance and BusinessWeek, is joining The Slate Group as publisher of its in-the-works online womens’ magazine Double X. She starts at the online publishing subsidiary of the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) March 9, the company confirmed. The spinoff…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Women-Centric Content, Exclusive, Companies, Washington Post, peggy white, slate
Feb 15, 2009 8:00 PM
Time was, Franco-U.S. relations stopped at “freedom fries.” But Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive is wiping the slate clean—the Slate.fr, to be precise. The French-language offshoot of Slate.com, launched last week by an all-star list of French newspaper and online editors, is the first, tentative play in what could be a major international…
Posted In: Companies, Washington Post, Countries, Europe, France, jacob weisberg, slate
Feb 11, 2009 6:03 AM
WPNI-owned current affairs webzine Slate has launched its first foreign-language edition in France and may consider further European rollouts. Slate.fr is a franchise operation that has been founded by former Le Monde editor Jean Marie Colambani and former 20minutes.fr editor Johan Hufnagel; 15 percent is owned by the Washington DC-based…
Posted In: Companies, Washington Post, Countries, Europe, France, slate
Jun 4, 2008 2:21 PM
The reorganization continues at The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Co following the departure of Caroline Little as CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. The latest: the creation of The Slate Group, a new online publishing unit including Slate, Slate V, The Root and upcoming business site The Big Money, with…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Companies, Washington Post, jacob weisberg, slate
Mar 17, 2008 4:42 PM
Online magazine Slate, which said last year that it would launch a business site, plans to call its new venture The Big Money. Editor James Ledbetter told Reuters that the site would appeal to people interested in economic and financial issues, but who don’t necessarily work in the financial services…
Posted In: Companies, Washington Post, slate
Oct 31, 2007 10:59 PM
Slate magazine is developing a business version of its general politics and culture site for a launch by next summer, NYO reports, and Reuters also confirms later. Though the creation of an online business news adjunct has yet to be formally approved by Slate’s parent, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Slate deputy editor…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Washington Post, slate
May 12, 2003 11:05 AM
Slate, which recently turned profitable, and NPR News have announced they are collaborating to produce a daily radio newsmagazine, set to debut on NPR stations in July 2003. The new, one-hour weekday radio newsmagazine, Day to Day, targeted for midday broadcast on NPR stations. NPR and Slate will also co-produce…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Non-Profit, Companies, Microsoft, npr, slate
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