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"The New Yorker is now proclaiming HuffPo profitable, apparently. Huffington Post said last October, according to PaidContent, that they were finally breaking even, but the numbers that are being bandied about by the New Yorker are a little shakey in that regard. By our counts, they've raised around $11 million total, but the New Yorker piece says that they've got yearly revenues of somewhere \"between $6 million to $10 million.\"\nThey've launched a number of sites and services we've seen and covered over the last few months, so presumably their still in a ramp up phase (and a spending craze). Unless we see some hard numbers or some corrections on the revenues statements, it doesn't sound like the company can quite call itself profitable.\nStill, they don't pay their writing contributors to the site, so perhaps that is where they're making back all their revenue. When I mention the fact that they don't pay content providers to fellow bloggers in the technology space, it always makes them stand jaws agape (and perhaps think to themselves that I'll stop at nothing to badmouth liberals).\nIt is true, though, and thusly makes me curious how the New Yorker leapt to the conclusion that the HuffPo is the future of journalism. The piece they wrote on the site seems to never tire of drawing comparisons between the newspaper business and the online liberal news blog.\nBy that measure, I'm also curious as to why there are so few blogging entities outside the tech niche that are truly and really profitable centers. Last I heard, Daily Kos wasn't in the black yet. TownHall and PajamasMedia both are presumably for-profit, but I've heard hide nor hair of their financials. I admit I'm only a fairweather fan of Michelle Malkin's HotAir, but I've heard that several higher-bandwidth projects have had to be shut down or curtailed there because of lack of funds.\nThere are tons of tech blogs (most of which have taken no VC ) that are far in the black, so why do the political blogs seem to have such a hard time with it?  If anything, I'd think political blogs would have an easier time making money.  Have you seen the comments area on a typical high-profile blogger's posts?  It puts anything we tech bloggers do to shame.  A Michelle Malkin post can very easily have around 700 comments on a slow news day.\nI have no explanation for it.  I've been blogging politics since blogging was a word, but never with the aim to make it my core business (and never really on a grand scale like HuffPo or any top tier bloggers), so I'm not sure where the problem is coming in on this one."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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