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Forbes To Open Site To 'Thousands' Of Unpaid Contributors

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By Rachel Kaufman

Let’s call it HuffFo: Under chief product officer Lewis Dvorkin, Forbes.com is opening up to thousands of unpaid contributors and paid editors will become curators, not creators, of content.

TechCrunch’s Paul Carr calls it “a death of a thousand hacks.”

Forbes’ David Ewalt, who was live-tweeting the meeting in which this was announced, said “A couple people asking if this is HuffPo model — my answer would be no, it’s more entrepreneurial, about developing wide swaths of talent.”

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