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Washington Post Buys Slate From Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-easy-and-it's-required dept.

securitas writes "The Washington Post has bought online magazine Slate from Microsoft for an undisclosed sum believed to be in the millions of dollars. The sale comes almost five months after Microsoft put Slate on the block (Slashdot) in late July. If you're looking for a perspective from someone other than Slate's editor Jacob Weisberg, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz writes about the sale: 'According to ComScore Media Metrix, washingtonpost.com drew 4.5 million unique visitors last month, while Slate drew 4.8 million.' David Carr reports in the New York Times that Neilsen NetRatings recorded 6 million Slate visitors last month. Either way, Slate's audience is larger than the Post's online edition. You can learn more about the deal from AP via IHT or get streaming audio at NPR (Real|Windows Media)."

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  1. Fox News Must But Slate!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are still some them hippies there at slate. Fox News needs to buy em. People might figure out George W. don't know what he doin.

  2. Am I the only one who immediately thought... by Sensible+Clod · · Score: 5, Funny

    'why would one modern company buy something so low-tech from a tech company, of all people?'

    Then my mind saw those funky slate 'newspapers' from the Flintstones...

    *shudders*

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    1. Re:Am I the only one who immediately thought... by SYFer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bedrock's "Daily Slab" was actually one of the great papers of its time. Far from being "funky," the Slab was a respected bastion of "hard news" until it was eventually bought out by Bill Gatestone the popularizer (although not the inventor) of the abacus.

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  3. Next... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the next forthcoming story by ComScore Media Metrix, Slate drew over 9.6 million unique visitors this month... after the site being mentioned on slashdot'

  4. A different perspective? by dominion · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're looking for a perspective from someone other than Slate's editor Jacob Weisberg, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz writes about the sale

    In other news, if you're looking for a different perspective on the two party system and it's ramifications for a healthy democracy other than Republican George Bush, here's Democrat John Kerry.

  5. Slate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow someone buying something of Microsoft's for once...is that breaking the rules?

  6. Inner Problems? by homeobocks · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Microsoft is tired of their magazine supporting Firefox.

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  7. Re:Another one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apparently, Microsoft wants to focus on its core incompetencies.

  8. Re:Who reads Slate by upsidedown_duck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps one should judge a book by it's content and not its cover.

    I prefer to follow the money.

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  9. Re:Who reads Slate by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    And was promptly offered for sale...

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  10. 1974 called... by Trespass · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and they want their paper of record back.

  11. Re:If you want a discussion not biased by crummynz · · Score: 1, Funny

    And if you don't want to be modded down to a -1 by a Slashdot moderator, you don't make off topic comments about the rating system.

    ...Oh. Damn.

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  12. checking out new purchase by slapout · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see it now:

    * This story is posted to slashdot
    * Slate gets slashdotted
    * The head of the washington post wants to see this website they just paid "millions of dollars" for
    * "503: Service Unavailable!! "
    * "We paid what for this thing?"

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