Raw story, progressive politics news

This web site started two years ago and based on the economic model similar to the Drudge Report. Started by one person without any investment. Done with donations and advertising.

The site is part blog and part news. He uses Goggle and gets decent revenue. You have to be very big or very local to sell advertising. Internet advertising has low margins.

Sensationalism brings in traffic. This is worrisome. Where is the line drawn, when controversy sells?

It is quite hard to get mainstream media to acknowledge the high quality journalism on the web.