This article showcases our top picks for the best New York based Journalism companies. These startups and companies operate a variety of Journalism solutions. We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands. Regardless, they are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
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We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top New York Journalism Companies
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BuzzFeed
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BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M.
It covers breaking news, produces original video, and creates content that people want to share on the web. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John Johnson.
It is headquartered in New York, N.Y.. .
NewsCred
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NewsCred develops and operates a content marketing platform for marketers. It provides access to licensed content from various publishers.
NewsCred also offers NewsRoom, a freelance-based newswire service to provide content from various journalists, photographers, videographers, and designers. Moreover, it offers content and social analytics, audience insights and targeting, influencer and competitor tracking, and custom reporting solutions; and social and Web publishing, social listening and engagement, paid social and native advertising, and integrations and data consolidation.
Further, NewsCred offers Content Marketing Maturity Index to help brands assess their content marketing and improve strategy, as well as provide marketers with tailored recommendations to enhance their content strategy. Asif Rahman, Iraj Islam, and Shafqat Islam founded it in 2008, with its headquarters in New York City..
NewsGuard
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NewsGuard provides online users with ratings and write-ups for news and information websites used and shared by consumers.
American Media
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American Media, Inc. is the publisher of celebrity journalism and health and fitness magazines in the U.S.
These include Star, Shape, Men’s Fitness, Fit Pregnancy, Natural Health, and The National Enquirer. In addition to print properties, AMI manages 14 different web sites.
The company also owns Distribution Services, Inc., the country’s #1 in-store magazine merchandising company.. .
ProPublica
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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Tinybeans
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Tinybeans brings together families from around the world every day, to privately experience the moments and milestones of their children.
CrowdSpark
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CrowdSpark’s Platform is web-based and mobile software that enables businesses to gather, curate, publish and amplify user-generated content at scale. CrowdSpark’s Creative division provides crowd-sourced, creative film & video production for the digital age.
CrowdSpark’s Content division allows anybody, anywhere, with a mobile device and a story, to share news, get published and get paid.. .
The Blaze
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The Blaze is a news, information, and opinion website by a team of writers, journalists, and video producers.
The Markup
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The Markup investigates how powerful actors use technology to reshape society.
Spoon University
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Spoon University is the everyday food resource that makes food make sense. Their site has the simplest recipes, and the best restaurants around campus that haven’t found yet.
Spoon University was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.. .
StringersHub
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StringersHub is an informational video agency with a head office in Minsk, Belarus. We organize shootings for the biggest media companies around the world.
In the end of 2016 the decision was made to create an online platform. In August 2017 the project was presented to the investors and experts in Minsk.
Today we are participating in NY Starta Accelerator and soon planning to launch the platform. Our platform takes into account the latest trends and opportunities in modern journalism.
It allows to collect video from eyewitnesses and professional stringers from around the world and provide to the largest media as quickly as possible. Our platform can solve such important problems of the media as deficit of the captivating video content (including UGC) and lack of stringers in the necessary locations..
New York Post
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The New York Post is an American daily newspaper, primarily distributed in New York City and its surrounding area. Its editorial offices are located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, in New York City, New York.
The modern version of the paper is written in tabloid format and since its change of ownership has transitioned to sensationalism and yellow journalism. Its website, nypost.com, features content in the categories of news, sports, editorial, gossip, entertainment, and business.
Established in 1801 by federalist Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post. Since 1993, the Post has been owned by News Corporation (and its successor, News Corp, as established in 2013), which had owned it previously from 1976 to 1988..
The Correspondent
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Correspondent is a movement for radically different news. Ad-free, member-funded, collaborative journalism.
Coming to the US and beyond.. .
MediaLink
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MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages of the business life cycle at the convergence of media, marketing, technology, and entertainment. In addition to developing, refining, and executing strategies that drive competitive advantage and business acceleration for its partners, it also has diversified its product suite to include executive search, conference programming, and event production.
MediaLink’s client partners include companies in the Fortune 500, media, entertainment and emerging technology companies, and private equity and venture capital firms. It is led by Michael Kassan and Wenda Harris Millard alongside a team of over 70, including senior executives with operational expertise in their respective fields.
Founded in 2004, MediaLink is headquartered in Los Angeles, C.A.. .
Scout Holdings
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Scout Holdings is a journalism community that delivers weekly online dispatches on the future of technology.
MuckRack
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Muck Rack’s software enables PR teams to effectively find the right journalists for their stories, send customized pitches, collaborate as a team, and quantify their impact. Fortune 500 brands, agencies and startups rely on Muck Rack to manage relationships with the media and boost coverage more efficiently.
Today’s PR professionals have no time for inaccurate contact information, disjointed workflows or archaic software. That’s why companies such as Nike, Taco Bell, Pfizer, Golin and Penguin Random House use Muck Rack to take their communications to the next level.
Muck Rack is also the solution of choice for journalists, who use their free, automatically updated portfolios to showcase their work and to provide information about what stories they’re looking for, their personal interests and how they prefer to be pitched.. .
SUMAQ Media Inc.
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SUMAQ is a platform that seeks to promote Peruvian culture in the United States.
New York Times Co
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The New York Times is a news and media agency that seek the truth and help people understand the world.
qbeats inc
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qbeats is a technology platform that matches content creators to consumers and determines the value of content. The platform enables indexing the world’s online content and applying quantitative science and AI to illuminate its monetary value as well as assigning real-time value to content by factoring in variables such as demand, relevance, timeliness, exclusivity, and journalist ratings, enabling clients to have global access for the consumption of content at the story level.
It parses, ranks, and dynamically values digital content based on impact and demand. qbeats was established in 2010 and is based in New York, USA..
Heavy Inc.
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Heavy is a platform for the most sought-after news and information. Through its flagship website, Heavy.com, and Spanish-language platform, AhoraMismo.com, readers benefit from rapid, unbiased reporting to access the content they want in real time.
Heavy.com was founded by entrepreneurs Simon Assaad and David Carson in 1999 as a video-focused entertainment site aimed primarily at young men. It rebooted in 2012 as a news site and today receives nearly 25 million readers a month.
Assaad continues to serve as CEO. Heavy’s content is driven by data around the stories, trends and products people search for the most.
The editorial team is made up of a mix of veteran reporters with independent journalists, who work on an editorial agenda built for quality, efficiency and speed. Heavy’s rapid original reporting and user-friendly formats, such as its “5 Fast Facts” posts, offer facts about trending topics in real time.
Heavy has also been recognized for reporting well ahead of mainstream news sites and is often sourced in editorial reporting. AhoraMismo is a Spanish-language platform that equips U.S.
Hispanics with news, information and other resources to help them navigate daily life. From entertainment and sports news to educational content on health, wellness and women’s issues, to analysis of important issues such as immigration, politics and financial planning, AhoraMismo arms its readers with tools to be more informed and improve their quality of life..
Qwoted
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Qwoted is a free platform that helps journalists connect and collaborate with subject matter experts (and the PRs who represent them) when they’re working on a story. Within our private network, you can pose a question, review multiple pitches, and mute conversations when you have what you need.
Qwoted automatically creates a portfolio of your work, and you can learn who your audience is, see the reach of your pieces, and measure your impact all within your Qwoted profile. PRs and self-representing sources can also utilize Qwoted to cut through the noise and pitch to reporters with our in-app messaging feature..
dearJulius.com
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dearJulius.com organizes the best lifestyle content to make it easier for you to focus on yourself, stay cognizant, and be relevant. dearJulius.com is a web portal powered by dearJulius.com Inc., a New York corporation, is a Media Company under the laws of New York state in the United States of America.
dearJulius.comoriginated as an internet-based articles aggregator and archive service launched on June 09, 2000. Articles originally came from leading media.
By 2010, dearJulius.com had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization.. .
Green Rush Daily
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Founded in October 2015, Green Rush Daily is the premiere digital publication in the cannabis space. We are a cannabis-oriented publication offering up-to-date and breaking content on cannabis politics, news, business, technology, and culture.
As a publication, we boast strong and witty editorial, and diversity–both of which we strive for across all platforms of our organization. This is the beauty of the cannabis industry: there is no glass ceiling, no threshold that is untouchable, no sphere impenetrable.
In an industry that is rapidly rising, we at Green Rush Daily are constantly pushing the boundaries, demanding and investigating innovation within the field, and establishing trends. From our early days in a Starbucks cafe to our present-day open-concept office in Chelsea, we haven’t lost sight of our goals.
That said: our primary mission is to provide people with truthful information and education about cannabis. This is who we are..
Longreads
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Longreads is dedicated to finding the best long-form stories on the web, for reading on the iPad, iPhone, Kindle and Read It Later. Users can submit their favorite #longreads, follow the curated @longreads Twitter feed, or search on Longreads.com for a complete database of the best long-form stories from publications like Vanity Fair, The New York Times and Esquire.
Users also can search Longreads.com by length of reading time, to help them find the perfect stories for commutes and airplane flights.. .
Totem
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Totem is the standard for treating press right. Our hosted press pages help businesses make a great impression with the press, analysts and influencers that matter most.
Since its launch in 2012, over 1,000 businesses have trusted Totem to put their best foot forward. The brainchild of Josh Jones-Dilworth and hundreds of angry journalists, Totem began as an internal project at JDI, a boutique marketing consultancy focused on emerging tech..
Instablogs
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Instablogs is a conversational platform built around the collaborative news model. Hosting and aggregating news from around the globe and combining them with the contributions from thousands of its members around the world, Instablogs couples the power of mainstream media with the empowerment of the citizens.
The website is part of Dr Prem Web Network. http://drprem.com.
TheRoot
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TheRoot is a digital magazine that provides thought-provoking commentary and news from a variety of perspectives. It provides smart, timely coverage of breaking news and gives voice to a changing, more diverse America.
TheRoot was founded in 2008 and is based in New York.. .
GroundReport
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GroundReport is a global citizen journalism platform that enables anyone to publish news reports and videos and reach a global audience. With a mission statement to ‘democratize the media,’ GroundReport’s base of over 7,000 international contributors report from the scene of world events, in theory, to provide local insight and spin-free authenticity.
To establish trust, GroundReport uses a Wikipedia-like model of volunteer editors and community feedback, combined with a 5-star rating system. Contributors retain rights to their work, and can choose a range of Creative Commons licenses.
The New York-based company was founded by Rachel Sterne in 2006, inspired by her work reporting on Darfur at the United Nations. GroundReport is distinguished from citizen journalism competitors like NowPublic in its original content-only policy.
Plagiarized and copyright-infringing material are strictly prohibited from GroundReport, and offending users banned from the site. The site updates constantly and report 75-100 new stories per day.
All GroundReport contributors receive automatic monthly payments via PayPal based on the unique traffic to their posts. Most GroundReport contributors are professionally trained journalists or journalism students.
In June 2008, GroundReport became the first citizen journalism platform to use the YouTube API for its on-demand video publishing. Shortly thereafter, GroundReport became an official partner channel, and a flagship participant in their newly launched ‘reporter’ category.
SourcingJournal
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Sourcing Journal is the premiere trade publication for apparel and textile executives focused on sourcing and manufacturing. Sourcing Journal knows that intelligent business decisions are based on strategic, time-sensitive information.
With continuous updates on global market conditions, breaking news stories, top-tier investigative journalism and industry white papers, They make sense of an increasingly complex sourcing landscape.. .
Camayak
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Camayak is a platform which allows coordinate and facilitate the creation of content designed for editors and writers.
Social Sauce
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Social Sauce is a small, internet start-up headquartered in New York City, that works to make online interaction more fun and meaningful. At the moment, Social Sauce has created two distinct products, Sosauce and Muse Games.
Sosauce is a content creation and sharing site for travel geeks. It’s a place where independent travel enthusiasts can create, view, and share their travel experiences, whether local or abroad.
The crux of the site is four applications (Trip, Photo, Journal, and Guide) tied together with web 2.0 networking elements. The design is young, hip, and fresh- making the content creation, viewing, and sharing experience both fun and meaningful.
Sosauce is currently in public beta. Muse Games is a 3D multi-player gaming portal, focusing on casual games that users can play in one sitting.
User can design an avatar, play against their friends, and interact via chat while playing. Muse Games is still in development.
Social Sauce is exploring mobile applications for both Sosauce and Muse Games.. .
Record
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Record is a digital media, publishing news stories with an aim of holding companies and governments accountable.
VocabSushi
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VocabSushi helps you learn new vocabulary words through the context of real-world sentences that come from recent news articles. It is ideal for students studying for standardized tests like the SAT or GRE.
Features include endless sentence completion questions, wordlist management, article reader, downloadable MP3 audio, printable quizzes and more. VocabSushi specializes in bitesize learning through short, delicious sentences that use the word in context..
Femsplain
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They are a brand new fem-powered content community created for anyone who identifies as a woman to feel empowered and to be seen and heard. Femsplain is edited voluntarily by Gabriela Barkho, Samantha Blinde, and their visual editors are Dianna McDougall and Christina Lu.
Their goal is to highlight all the amazing diversity of women on the Internet who might not have another outlet to speak on. They want to create a supportive and positive community for anyone to support.
Think of us as a casual Internet support group you don’t need to pay for and can visit whenever in the comfort of your home. Each month they’ll announce a new theme on the first and ask for contributors through a post as well as on their social media accounts.
If you would like to submit original content please visit their contact page for more information. They encourage you to submit all different types of content as long as it aligns with the designated theme of the month.
A story, art, an email conversation, a text message screenshot, really anything. It’s all up to you! Make it as long or as short as you need it to be to tell your story.
As they’re a brand new site they aren’t able to pay their contributors just yet.. .
StoryShelter
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StoryShelter is the Social Space to Share Life’s Stories. Every person has a story to tell.
And not just one story. Many stories! Stories they don’t want to forget.
Stories that they want to tell their children someday. Stories they want to tell without revealing their identity.
Stories that they want to share with their friends and family! But social media sites aren’t a good place to post life stories, keeping a journal is a thing of the past and many people don’t want to create their own blog. So where can people go to fulfill this need? StoryShelter: The Social Space to Share Life’s Stories.
StoryShelter is the only place online where you can easily write, share and save true stories from your life and also read compelling life stories from others. Using a Q&A format, StoryShelter asks questions about life, love, friends, family and more.
You can also write your own stories if you have something specific in mind you want to share. You can choose to post each story publicly, anonymously, or to a group of your choosing.
Institutional Investor Journals
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Institutional Investor Journals offer in-depth, original, and practical research in investment management and finance. Written and edited by world-renowned practitioners and academics, the Journals and special topic Guides are extensively read and highly regarded in the industry.
The cutting-edge analysis and strategic insights make them invaluable resources for institutional investors all over the world. Institutional Investor Journals feature articles by investment luminaries and Nobel laureates.
Tap into the knowledge and wisdom of the greatest minds in finance.. .
Turing Tribe
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We help people discover the best artificial intelligence products, news stories, and trends.
Tech4Reporters
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Tech4Reporters is a web project that links journalists with experts in the tech community.
TrulyNet
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TrulyNet is a New York City-based web network, offering critical commentary and reviews of the latest gear. Founded in 2005, and formerly based in Honolulu and San Francisco, they have grown from a single site to almost a dozen.
With niche sites like TrulyGadgets.com and TrulyFashions.com, the TrulyNetwork updates daily, bringing the largely young professional audience news and advice covering products from kitchen appliances to outdoor necessities. Founded in 2005 by Editor-in-Chief Greg May, TrulyNet has staff located in four states..
Quercus Publishing
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Quercus Publishing publishes a wide variety of books, including crime and thriller novels, commercial and literary works, and narrative nonfiction titles, many in translation, as well as a select list for middle-grade and YA readers. Quercus Publishing Plc was founded by Mark Smith (now Chief Executive) and Wayne Davies (now Executive Director, Digital) in May 2004.
Starting out in a small office on Dorset Street in London, the company published several bestselling titles, fueling rapid expansion.. .
Plentitube
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Plentitube is a marketplace for buyers and sellers of original media. Plentitube is a platform providing media companies and advertisers with a growing, editorialized catalog of content.
Plentitube empowers content creators to act as their own talent agent, providing them with the necessary resources to market, pitch, and negotiate acquisition or sponsorship for their content. Plentitube’s revenue stream is both subscription and commission-based..
The Contently Foundation
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Contently, Inc is a technology company that helps publishers and freelancers tell great stories and succeed in business. The company provides paid software tools for brands and other types of publishers, aiming to re-establish the so-called rules of who can be a publisher and who can’t.
Contently also provides free tools to help freelance journalists manage their careers, and brokers work as a sort of tech-fangled talent agent for thousands of professional storytellers.. .
NewsCracker
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NewsCracker provides a natural language processing platform to automatically detect fake news online.
Artsy Fartsy Show
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The Artsy Fartsy Show covers all that is new and relevant in the performing, visual and culinary art worlds. It is hosted by Executive Producer Barika Taheer Edwards.
Artsy Fartsy Show features segments regarding art politics, artist’s rights and portraits of the American cultural experience. The Artsy Fartsy Show believes in the curiosity and intelligence of discussing art as a universal, egalitarian, and inclusive necessity for everyone – thus urging a collective cheer to: Be Artsy!.
NewsFund
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No more sensationalized headlines, biased articles or pointless gifs. At NewsFund we’re giving the people back their voice and allowing you to fund the content you want.
NewsFund allows the public to control the content they read. By creating a platform for journalists to pitch their stories, the public can choose to fund their idea or skip.
All funded content will appear exclusively on NewsFund.co.. .
RealClimate
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RealClimate is a commentary site that focused on all aspects of climatology. It provides timely responses to developing stories and fills in the missing context telecasted through mainstream media channels.
Real Climate was founded by Gavin Schmidt, Michael E. Mann, Raymond S.
Bradley, and Caspar Ammann in December 2014.. .
Suspend The Rules
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Suspend The Rules is a news company focused on delivering comprehensive, fresh talking points so readers can debate the latest news in politics, business, sports, and culture. We deliver our talking points in a morning newsletter, five times per week.
Our objective is to help readers learn more about the world, but more importantly, help readers retain that information when they need it the most.. .
The Big Roundtable
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The Big Roundtable publishes narrative nonfiction (aka longform) and conducts experiments is a digital publishing platform that aims to connect passionate nonfiction writers with readers who will support their work. They do this through experimental methods of gathering, selecting, editing, and distributing ambitious narrative stories, and, eventually, researching the reading and sharing behavior around those stories.
And by convening forums—online and in person—where writers can learn and connect for mutual support. The inspiration for The Big Roundtable came from the Algonquin Round Table, a group of New York City writers who called themselves “The Vicious Circle” and who’d meet at the Algonquin Hotel in the early 20th century.
They were vicious; they are not.. .
Columbia Global Reports
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Producing four to six ambitious works of journalism and analysis a year, each on a different underreported story in the world.
Presseract
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Presseract provides an alternative to paywalls and ad-ridden experiences for both publishers and users by combining a mini-subscription marketplace with a great reader app, a place where users create and share their own newspapers. It’s like iTunes for news.
On Presseract, instead of subscribing to whole paywalls, users can buy in one-click their favorite sections of different sites–like the NYT Opinion for 99 cents a month–and have them along with all their other favorite content, everything from blogs to Twitter feeds, on one page that’s their own shareable newspaper. Imagine reading Barack Obama’s newspaper.
Some sample Presseract profiles: http://presseract.com/user.aspx?user=alebrahim.alihttp://presseract.com/user.aspx?user=quantumplation. .
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