Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon is back on the Internets, after a quick foray into the MSM realm at ABC News. Congdon is now on “Sometimes Daily.”
Congdon told the New York Times’ Brian Stelter the ABC News gig started great – but didn’t quite fit:
ABC News felt right at first, she said; looking back, she calls it “the most innovative network news site at the time.†But she found producers at ABC to be unresponsive to her ideas, calling it a “slow and messy process.†It didn’t help that online reporters discovered her freelance commercial work for the chemical company DuPont, raising conflict-of-interest questions that ABC skirted by calling her an independent contractor. (Last fall, when Ms. Congdon left, ABC characterized her tenure as “a great experiment for both of us.â€)
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(Thanks, Rob)