Salon's Swan Song?
Who will buy Salon.com? The site’s search for a buyer has drawn attention to its troubled business model as a standalone news site, but its content and audience could be valuable to a company willing to assume its losses.
Someone who’s shown a strong stomach for such losses is Sidney Harman, the 92-year-old audio pioneer who bought Newsweek for $1 this summer (then merged it with Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast). He could fold in Salon’s editorial staff and audience, while eliminating duplicated back-office, sales and technology staff.
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