stealthyc2010

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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
If I understand this correctly, it doesn't overwrite existing affiliate links. I feel it should though, its my browser after all.
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
Yes, we'll be working on the ad revenues. They certainly aren't high enough to support a massive media organization. They should be high enough to support a low-overhead one-man journalism show. There are other revenue streams, too. It rema
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
Yeah, similar alright. We have different outlook. The writers for our site aren't "contributors". Rather, they are the stars and we are providing a service to them.
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
Interesting question. I'm guessing since you ask about the DCMA you're asking about copyright. Well, we'll vet all our writers, and it should be no problem at all. We'll also delay payment of new writers so that there is no way to do some k
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
Its not strictly limited to journalists, but its focus will be news, and we're looking to restrict the authors to high quality writers. While I expect to widen the platform to all comers in the long term, we'll be very careful how we do it.
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
We were only trying to be secret to not build hype when the product isn't ready. Backfire! We hope you aren't put off. We are going to be as open and transparent as we can be. (I should point out in that case that I'm only using this name f
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
No-one is being crapped on here. I've updated the CFJ to hopefully make that a lot clearer.
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
Done, thanks. Who needs spell checking when you have HN :)
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
The YC motto: make something people want. Journalists do not want to be exploited for pennies, so that is not a product we would be involved in. I would not be happy getting rich by exploiting others, and newslabs won't be involved in anyth
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
There isn't anything about our market, because we're not specific to any of them. If you are a journalist, write about what you are interested in. So far, we've had interest from people who write about finance, about tech, about gaming, and
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
Our original name. God I hated that, glad its gone.
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
We are aiming to get journalists a fair wage. We aren't promising payments of 30K-70K, but we needed numbers to put in the box on the Poynter site, so we put in our targets. Do email us, you sound interesting. I'm paul [at] newslabs.com or
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
We have many people interested. I haven't triaged them all, but there are high quality people in there. We don't need people to jump - there were 8000 journalists laidoff last year, and there are many many freelancers out there. The people
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
> I have a few journalist friends (as no doubt do you guys) and pointed a couple of them at this. Thanks for doing that. I hope you'll point them at this comment too. > [...] you'll probably find that a lot of your target market qu
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
We were all new here once. No hard feelings :)
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
Nothing sinister here. We give journalists 80% of the _revenue_ from their content. We can make it up on volume. I updated the CFJ to be clearer.
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
We were just trying to avoid building hype until we had more built. Whoops.
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by stealthyc2010 17y ago
Hi folks, we're NewsLabs (pbiggar and nchong on HN). We never intended to use secrecy to hype stuff up, just to be a bit quiet until we had more built.
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YC 2010 startup needs journalists as early users(secretjournalismstartup.posterous.com)
81 points by stealthyc2010 17y ago|51 comments