Michael Roston to NYT →
Talk about a happy ending. Long story short, Michael worked his ass off and was a believer in all the good parts (and there were many) of True/Slant, a blog network that - if you don’t know - was (all but) eaten up by Forbes when they brought on T/S’s chief Lewis Dvorkin, essentially taking True/Slant off the market, and perming much of its blogger model over the one that used to exist there. True/Slant basically helped writers, freelances, people without other outlets with making a little cash blogging on their own, without much interference, with all legs up. It had a low-ceiling for profit in its first year - after which it got canned - but a great idea with great writers (my awesome co-person Jen at the Voice was there before she worked at the Voice, among other gigs). Many people called it an “experiment,” but I’m convinced it maybe, possibly could’ve worked, and in fact, sooner than later, needs to work.
Anyway, it was a good thing, and good people worked there, and nobody really knew what was going to happen to these good people after it ended, and well, this did. Michael’s gonna be a frontpage producer for the NYTimes.com, which if you can’t guess, is a pretty swell (read: amazing) gig as far as these things go. So: Happy Monday. This is nice news to start the week off with. And congrats to Michael.
