Word: slating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bless Monica Lewinsky," began a Michael Kinsley column a few weeks ago in Slate, the Microsoft-backed online magazine he edits. Kinsley was crowing about the Webzine's jump in readership: 270,000 different visitors in January, nearly double the audience of a month earlier. The Monica-fueled boost has emboldened Slate slate.com to once again take a step that it tried and aborted just a year earlier: ask its audience of freeloaders to become paying subscribers...
...plunge into the unknown--and maybe into oblivion. As of last Monday, Slate's daily serving of features and comment on news, politics and culture was declared off limits to any Web surfer who doesn't shell out $19.95 for a yearly subscription. Kinsley, the former New Republic editor (and current TIME essayist), reports that 17,000 subscribers had signed up by midweek, a big falloff in audience but a necessary step, he argues, if the Webzine is to be a self-sustaining business. "Readership is going to plummet at first," Kinsley admits. "But you have to bite the bullet...
...Lewinsky affair has also been a boost to Slate's chief rival among magazines written for the Web, Salon salonmagazine.com) But Salon editor David Talbot says the San Francisco-based Webzine has no plans to start charging; he claims it will turn a profit within a year, primarily from ad revenue...
Monicagate is still very much alive, observes Slate's Scott Shuger, who ledes his Friday dispatch with USA Today's version of Kathleen Willey's lawyer's spin control. To balance it out, Shuger turns to the Wash Post and its Bob Bennett salvo in the Jones case. As for the non-Monica rundown, Slate's SS points us to the NYT's look at what's new with Zhu, China's new prime minister; the WSJ's take a on a court win in Muncie, Ind., for cigarette makers; and the LAT's coverage of Rupert Murdoch...
...that "there's been a few people who've written and said, you're doing valuable stuff, but as a matter of principle, I'll never pay for anything on the Web." Budde's been working on the Interactive Edition since way back in 1993, and the flurry over Slate's recent jump to the subscription model raised few eyebrows over there. Says Tom Baker, the site's business director, "I was at a conference a couple of weeks ago, and everybody was hooting at them, as if they were breaking all the rules...