"New media? Everything new is old again," Capitol Hill Blue, Oct. 8, 2010.
Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz shocked his colleagues and even his critics this week when he announced he was leaving the Post after 29 years to join The Daily Beast, a web-only news site run by Tina Brown.
Kurtz is just the latest high-profile “mainstream” media journalist to abandon a “traditional” news outlet for one of the upstart web-based operations. Others include Howard Fineman of Newsweek and Peter Goodman of the New York Times. Both moved over to The Huffington Post.
Mentioned later in the article is 2008-2009 Reynolds Fellow Bill Densmore:
In Chicago recently, the “Journalism That Matters” project, run by former Associated Press staffer Bill Densmore, explored business models for local news sites and blogs.
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