http://www.cjr.org/analysis/the_mission_sounds_simple_pay.php
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THE MISSION SOUNDS SIMPLE: Pay writers and edit their work. This is not revolutionary, nor should it be, given journalism’s sepia-tinted legacy of pensions and expense accounts. But the idea was enough to draw more than 100 writers to Slant, a slick publisher-platform hybrid that launched in late June to server-busting traffic numbers.
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