True/Slant - FishbowlNY http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny Turning the Page For New York Media Copyright 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:37 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 True/Slant Launches, Experiments With Sponsored Content trueslnts.pngAt this point it’s becoming fairly clear that as the panic increases over the demise of newspapers we are entering an era of ‘we’re willing to try anything’ decision making (closing papers as bargaining tactic, anyone?), which may or may not result in a blurring and/or redefining of ethical lines when it comes to how to provide, get, and pay for news online (or at least a frenzied panic over the possibility of blurring).

To wit: The WSJ has a story today about the launch of True/Slant a new news site launched by former AOL exec Lewis Dvorkin. Here’s the kicker. True/Slant intends to run Web ads on the site but “the site plans to offer advertisers their own entire pages where they can run blogs and try to attract a network of followers. These will have the same design and features of the journalists’ pages, but will be labeled as ad content.” Sponsored content, of course, is not entirely new; The Daily Beast recently toyed with it, also, in somewhat similar fashion Gawker used to run book advertisements that were formatted like posts. Also, magazines (not to mention the front pages of newspapers!) have been running advertising sections made to look like editorials for quite some time.

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]]> Glynnis http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/trueslant-launches-experiments-with-sponsored-content_b11510#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/trueslant-launches-experiments-with-sponsored-content_b11510 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/current-media-cancels-ipo_b11529 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:51:31 +0000