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Monday, November 14, 2005 12:00 AM

Ten years of Salon

From the dot-com madness to our Blackbeard-like refusal to die to making online journalism history, it's been one hell of a ride. A look back at Salon's first decade.

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  • Monday, November 14, 2005 05:32 PM

    Where to next?

    Salon has largely taken the place in my life of two subscriptions: to a daily newspaper and a weekly news magazine.

    I held off on subscribing for a long time because I wanted more content from you to pay that much money. I'm glad that I eventually joined and now support you directly through the Premium membership, but I am still disappointed that there is not more content.

    I find the journalism and the ideas of Salon compelling, but under-represented in the marketplace of ideas. In the next 10 years, I'd like to see Salon writers become more multi-media and appear on radio and television programs that are national in reach. I'd like to see the editors and other top management at Salon pushing the writers and pulling the national media to make it happen.

    I realize your culture rises out of the Bay Area media scene, and that you do harken back to the "rogue journalistic DNA that ran in the veins of maverick (San Francisco Examiner) writers like Mark Twain, Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce, Jack London and Hunter S. Thompson," but all of those illuminaries are embraced now as national icons. Salon needs to follow them to the same place.

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