The Daily Dot

The Daily Dot
URL http://www.dailydot.com/
Slogan The Hometown Newspaper of the World Wide Web
Launched 2011
Alexa rank 56,432

The Daily Dot is an online newspaper that covers internet topics. It aims to be the "hometown newspaper" of the internet.[1][2] It has a 25 member editorial staff.[3] The CEO is Nick White.[4]

The newspaper was funded with an initial investment of approximately $600,000[5] and launched publicly on August 23, 2011.[6] It publishes 15 to 20 articles a day.[7]

VentureBeat said the website's reporting was reminiscent of Tosh.0.[8]

References

  1. ^ Mathew Ingram. "The Daily Dot: Interesting idea, but not a great metaphor". GigaOM, 8/23/2011.
  2. ^ Anthony Ha. "Can The Daily Dot Become Web's 'Hometown Newspaper'?". AdWeek, 8/23/2011.
  3. ^ Ole Reißmann. "Diese Roboter finden Witze und Wertvolles". Der Spiegel, 9/7/2011.
  4. ^ Tomio Geron. "The Daily Dot Is A Local Newspaper For The Social Web". Forbes, 8/23/201.
  5. ^ Alex Howard. "The Daily Dot wants to tell the web's story with social data journalism". O'Reilly Radar, 8/25/2011.
  6. ^ Ryan Tate. "Insane Internet People Get Their Own Newspaper". Gawker, 8/23/2011.
  7. ^ Lauren Indvik. "Daily Dot Launches as Community Newspaper for the Web". Mashable, 8/23/2011.
  8. ^ Heather Kelly. "The Daily Dot wants to be a small town paper for the entire Internet". VentureBeat, 8/22/2011.

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