Reporter: Staying in print is riskier than moving online
The Politico, the online news political venture starting publication in two weeks, has been hiring veteran journalists — including John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei from The Washington Post, Mike Allen from Time magazine and Roger Simon from Bloomberg News — who are willing to leave the once-secure confines of traditional print to join a start-up.
“It seems riskier to stay in print than to go to something new,” said Ben Smith, 30, a reporter for The Daily News in New York, who will be writing a blog for The Politico about the 2008 presidential campaign.
The site will likely build an audience between now and the 2008 election, but will it be able to survive after the election?
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