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Key Lessons Learned After Launching the Daily Dot
The following is a guest column from Nicholas White, the editor-in-chief and CEO of the Daily Dot. There is nothing "fun" about changing the world. No matter how big or small your ambitions, if you work at a startup -- or worse, if you've founded one -- you are trying to change the world. You're creating new patterns of behavior...
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5 Lessons Learned Building The Daily Dot, a Media Startup
This is the third and final post in a series from Nicholas White, the co-founder and CEO of The Daily Dot. It was one year ago this month that I moved to Austin, Texas, in full dedication to creating The Daily Dot, the hometown newspaper of the world wide web. This week, we officially launched the site. First of all,...
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NewspaperShift
The Necessity of Data Journalism in the New Digital Community
This is the second post in a series from Nicholas White, the co-founder and CEO of The Daily Dot. It used to be, to be a good reporter, all you had to do was get drunk with the right people. Sure, it helped if you could string a few words together, but what was really important was that when news...
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Why I Gave Up the Newspaper to Save Newspapering
The following is a guest post from Nicholas White, the CEO of The Daily Dot, a new startup in community journalism. White leaves a long lineage of newspaper men and women in his family to join digital media and explains why. Six months ago, I quit my family's 179-year-old newspaper company. I left not because newspapers are crumbling -- though...
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