David Talbot
David Talbot
David Talbotis an American progressive journalist, author and media entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO and editor-in-chief of one of the first web magazines, Salon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
bringing truck year
Now I?m bringing my family, ... We come every year for the truck pull.
delay editors floor gets house salon spin threatened today tom white
Salon is not necessarily pro-Bill Clinton. We have a lot of different viewpoints and when Congressman DeLay gets on the House floor today and accuses us of being in the White House's pocket, it's a bald-face lie... One of our editors called for his (Clinton's) resignation recently, so Tom DeLay and the other, they know we're not part of the spin machine. What they're threatened by is our independence.
american-journalist build high hire million money profile raised salon staff
On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today.
allowed american-journalist course national
The Internet, of course allowed us to show the world what we can do. It was a way to have a national if not international platform.
american-journalist
You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
american-journalist gone
I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.
american-journalist few hopefully last months
I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.
american-journalist enormous feed joey respect steve
I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.
american-journalist break refused scared
I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.
regret imagine salons
I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
teenager integrity interesting
I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
writing thinking epic
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.
new-york thinking important
I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.
lonely thinking differences
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.