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The is a for-profit online local news organization that covers Sacramento, Calif.
The Press was by Ben Ilfeld, who ran the site until 2013, when he .
It had an of three in 2012, along with numerous unpaid contributors, about 110 of whom wrote articles each month. By late 2013, prior to its sale, the staff had . The site in 2011. The site was not profitable at that time and in 2012. It reported $275,000 in revenue in 2010 and projected $300,000 in revenue in 2011, and reported in 2012. The site 200,000 pageviews and 75,000 unique visitors per month as of 2012.
In December 2009, the Press started up a ; as of May 2010, .
In November of 2010, Ilfeld and co-founder Geoff Samek as Macer Media (”macer” is Latin for “lean”).
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The Media Consortium is a collaborative network of liberal news organizations whose work includes digital innovation, advertising and media business studies. The consortium was founded in 2005 and formally launched in 2006 by about two dozen news organizations, and it currently has 46 members, including Mother Jones, The Nation and Salon. The consortium three staff…
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