Congratulations to Rafat Ali of paidContent, what an amazing story. His daily blog focusing on content has been acquired for $30 million by Guardian News & Media. The site was founded in 2002 and has become a  pioneer in the online news space, doing high-quality reporting about online media and digital efforts by big media companies. ContentNext has offices in Santa Monica, Calif., and Manhattan and operates several other sites, and also runs several conferences. This sale comes after the mid-May sale of Ars Technica, a much larger tech-focused site, More»

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Ars Technica, one of the web’s earliest technology blogs, has been bought by Conde Naste for a reported $25,000,000. This represents a handsome payday for the two Ars founders Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes, both with Harvard Divinity School backgrounds. Stokes actually holds two master’s degrees in early Christian history from Harvard Divinity School and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. Ironically I can find no mention at all of the deal at the Ars Technica website, More»

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