Sites That Get More Visits Than The Competition Are Bad Business?
So, TBD as a general local news site was killed today, and it’s on its way to becoming a niche arts and entertainment site with a much smaller staff.
The reasons for the cuts: financial, we’ve heard. In fact, last week WJLA manager Bill Lord, who was put in charge of TBD earlier this month, told Poynter:
“‘We need to be more cost conscious, and we need more page views.”
But if that’s the case, then WJLA has some ‘splainin’ to do, says blogger Michael Boyd Clark (who is a member of the TBD community network of bloggers).
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