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 Read More
