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
political frustrated way
A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
discovery stories exciting
FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.
upgrading roger rating
We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything.
causes journalism profession
Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.
college favorites-things journalism
My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.
florida white house
While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.
school college high-school
I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.
american-journalist closest santa school took
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
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.