Citizen journalism site Backfence downsizes
BackFence.com, an interesting citizen journalism start-up, has let 12 of 18 employees go and CEO and co-founder Susan DeFife has resigned from the company. It's unclear what this means for the future of that company or of citizen journalism business models in general.
DeFife says Backfence has built 13 sites in three metro area (DC, Chicago and Bay Area), sold 550 ads to local businesses since April 2006, and got two percent of community members to register in its most mature communities (i.e. Reston, McLean and Bethesda).
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