If someone is looking for a business model that works in today’s Internet news media environment it appears at least one place to look is Politico.
Since its inception, it has continued to expand. It’s main publication and website has spawned countless insider briefing products, an expansion into New York political coverage and now an expansion into Europe led – in part – by Carrie Budoff Brown who many Laurel readers will remember from her time at the Hartford Courant.
ICYMI: At his year end news conference, President Obama bantered with Brown (a Politico White House correspondent) about her upcoming move to Brussels, Belgium. It is not the first time Obama has made fun of Politico. At the annual White House correspondents dinner a few years ago he mocked the news org with a Politico inspired headline he imagined might have run in 1865: “Lincoln Ends Civil War, but Can He Hold the House?”
