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The Faster Times is an online newspaper launched by Sam Apple
on July 9, 2009. Many print newspapers were going out of business and reporters were losing their jobs. The New York Times
reported that in this climate, Apple was able to recruit professional writers guaranteeing them 75% of revenue from advertisements placed near their stories. In 2010, the paper began a membership program that allows readers to subscribe. Incentives are given to subscribers, but online content continues to be available to the public.
Its mission statement, written by editor-in-chief and publisher Sam Apple, says: "The question is not whether there is a way to keep up with the constant appetite for news, but whether there is a way to keep up without great writing and reporting."
The Faster Times (TFT) is modeled in part after Talking Points Memo
, in part after The Huffington Post
.
Writers and editors at TFT include award-winning novelists and non-fiction book writers, university professors, a TV comedy writer, and contributors to The New York Times
, The New Republic
, The Wall Street Journal
, The New Yorker
, Vanity Fair
, Sports Illustrated
, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor
, GQ, Smithsonian
, Bon Appetit
, The Atlantic, New York
, Slate
, Salon.com
, and other publications.
The writers include Onome Akpogheneta, Adam Baer, Barrett Brown, Melissa Clark, Ilan Greenburg, Jonathan Mandell, Clancy Martin
, Davi Napoleon
, Katie Natopolis, Lawrence Osborne
, Neal Pollack
, Jason Reich
, Lincoln Michel, Adam Wilson, Clay Risen, John Sellers, Charles Siebert
, Lary Wallace, Sarah Silverman
, Daria Vaisman, Jonathan Wilson
and David Wondrich.
Apple launched TFT with 16 sections that feature the work of correspondents who file daily and columnists who comment weekly or biweekly. Guest posters appear occasionally.
Sam Apple
edited New Voices and directed interactive media at Nerve.com before beginning this online newspaper.
Sam Apple
Sam Apple , a graduate of the University of Michigan, is a non-fiction book writer and the editor-in-chief and publisher of The Faster Times...
on July 9, 2009. Many print newspapers were going out of business and reporters were losing their jobs. The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
reported that in this climate, Apple was able to recruit professional writers guaranteeing them 75% of revenue from advertisements placed near their stories. In 2010, the paper began a membership program that allows readers to subscribe. Incentives are given to subscribers, but online content continues to be available to the public.
Its mission statement, written by editor-in-chief and publisher Sam Apple, says: "The question is not whether there is a way to keep up with the constant appetite for news, but whether there is a way to keep up without great writing and reporting."
The Faster Times (TFT) is modeled in part after Talking Points Memo
Talking Points Memo
Talking Points Memo is a web-based political journalism organization created and run by Josh Marshall, journalist and historian covering issues from a "politically left perspective,". It debuted on November 12, 2000...
, in part after The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
.
Writers and editors at TFT include award-winning novelists and non-fiction book writers, university professors, a TV comedy writer, and contributors to The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
, Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor is an international newspaper published daily online, Monday to Friday, and weekly in print. It was started in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. As of 2009, the print circulation was 67,703.The CSM is a newspaper that covers...
, GQ, Smithsonian
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.-History:...
, Bon Appetit
Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit describes itself as "a food and entertaining magazine" and is published monthly. Named after the French phrase for "Enjoy your meal", it was started by M. Frank Jones in Kansas City in 1956...
, The Atlantic, New York
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
, Slate
Slate (magazine)
Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
, Salon.com
Salon.com
Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...
, and other publications.
The writers include Onome Akpogheneta, Adam Baer, Barrett Brown, Melissa Clark, Ilan Greenburg, Jonathan Mandell, Clancy Martin
Clancy Martin
Clancy W. Martin is a Canadian philosopher, essayist, translator and novelist. His debut novel How to Sell was a Times Literary Supplement "Best Book of 2009" , and a "Best Book of 2009" for The Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, The Kansas City Star.-Works:*Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A...
, Davi Napoleon
Davi Napoleon
Davi Napoleon, aka Davida Skurnick is an American theater historian and critic. She is a theater columnist for The Faster Times, an online newspaper, and a regular contributor to Live Design, a monthly magazine about entertainment design and designers...
, Katie Natopolis, Lawrence Osborne
Lawrence Osborne
Lawrence Osborne is a British novelist, traveler and memoirist, currently residing in New York City. He is known for unusual travelogues that explore single subjects or places, such as Paris, global wine culture or the little-known neighborhoods of Bangkok....
, Neal Pollack
Neal Pollack
Neal Pollack is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He lives in Austin, Texas. Pollack has written six books: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Never Mind the Pollacks, Beneath the Axis of Evil, Alternadad, Stretch, and Jewball. He is a member of...
, Jason Reich
Jason Reich
Jason Reich is an American television writer who has won four Emmy Awards for his work on The Daily Show, for which he wrote from 2002 to 2007. He was also one of the writers of America . An established sketch comedy actor, he is occasionally seen in the background of skits on the show...
, Lincoln Michel, Adam Wilson, Clay Risen, John Sellers, Charles Siebert
Charles Siebert
Charles Siebert is an American actor and television director. As an actor he is best known for his role as Dr. Stanley Riverside II on Trapper John, M.D. which he portrayed from 1979-1986...
, Lary Wallace, Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman is a Jewish American comedian, writer, actress, singer and musician. Her satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics such as racism, sexism, and religion....
, Daria Vaisman, Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson (journalist/author)
Jonathan Wilson is a British sports journalist and author who writes for a number of publications including the Guardian, the Independent and Sports Illustrated. He is a columnist for World Soccer and is the founder and editor of The Blizzard...
and David Wondrich.
Apple launched TFT with 16 sections that feature the work of correspondents who file daily and columnists who comment weekly or biweekly. Guest posters appear occasionally.
Sam Apple
Sam Apple
Sam Apple , a graduate of the University of Michigan, is a non-fiction book writer and the editor-in-chief and publisher of The Faster Times...
edited New Voices and directed interactive media at Nerve.com before beginning this online newspaper.
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- http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/you_pick_it_you_report_it.php/Article about The Faster Times in the Columbia Journalism ReviewColumbia Journalism ReviewThe Columbia Journalism Review is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961....
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- Article about The Faster Times in a University of Michigan alumni magazine