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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Jonah Peretti

1. April 16, 2012 05:15 PM

   Six degrees of aggregation

   How The Huffington Post ate the Internet

   By Michael Shapiro

   Of the many and conflicting stories about how The Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54 million comments in the past year alone, how it came to surpass the traffic of virtually all the nation’s established news organizations and amass content so voluminous...

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2. May 18, 2012 03:15 PM

   The future of media is social

   It's also shared, viral, and free from banner ads

   By Kira Goldenberg

   The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU hosted I Want Media’s fifth annual “Future of Media” forum on Friday afternoon. Speakers included Adweek executive editor James Cooper, BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti, Jezebel editor in chief Jessica Coen, Reuters social media guru Anthony De Rosa, Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer, Activate’s Michael Wolf, and Greg Clayman, the publisher of The Daily. Here...

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