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Patch.com to hire dozens of Atlanta metro journalists

Patch.com, the hyperlocal journalism start-up on which AOL is betting $50 million dollars, is searching for several dozen journalists to edit and run local community sites throughout the Atlanta metro area. The pay is between $35,000 — $45,000 a year plus benefits. It comes with a freelance budget too. Here are excerpts from an email [...]

Outsourcing Journalism

Media companies looking for cheap content are buying more third-party news – news produced by groups like Associated Content, Demand Media and AOL’s Seed.  These companies operate like brokers, selling stories produced by a stable of freelancers that could number in the thousands.  Woman’s Day is using Associated Content, according to Ad Age, which also reports [...]

AOL’s newsroom of the future

More than 500 full-time journalists are creating content for AOL. But they don’t decide what to write in the traditional way.  Veteran reporters and editors are getting an eye-opening experience in the future of news, AOL-style.  Pages of Web traffic data are posted on the newsroom walls to let reporters and editors know how well [...]