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Don’t Call Them Journalists! Some 40,000 Freelance “Examiners” Cranking out Local News for Examiner.com

Today, Ad Age‘s Edmund Lee writes about Examiner.com, which, with backing from billionaire Philip Anschutz, has become a “a crowd-sourced content play” that publishes a vast amount of local news from more than 40,000 freelance contributors in some 240 neighborhoods around the country and in Canada.

“I hesitate to call them journalists,” CEO Rick Read More