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So … This Is Now News

Posted on | March 13, 2013 | 59 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 13, 2013

New Media Site ViralRead.com Signs
Robert Stacy McCain as Editor in Chief

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Veteran journalist Robert Stacy McCain will be joining the staff of ViralRead.com as editor in chief, the New Media site’s publisher announced Wednesday. “While we’re quietly building out ViralRead for its official launch, I’m sure we just sent a loud signal,” said Ali A. Akbar, president of Viral Read’s parent company, Pundit Syndication LLC. “Robert Stacy McCain’s experience is going to firm our foundation as we creep closer to our official launch.”
Akbar, an influential young digital strategist and entrepreneur, emphasized the value of McCain’s 27 years of experience in both traditional and online media to ViralRead, a site that made its online debut last year, though will it officially launch at the beginning of spring.
“What first attracted us in acquiring Stacy’s online property was his unique ability to monetize his blog,” said Akbar, who will host a ViralRead party Saturday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “This is only the beginning.” . . .

You can read the whole thing at Viral Read. What this deal means going forward, and my reflections on the significance, will have to wait for later because (a) I’ve got to pack and head over to National Harbor for CPAC, and (b) there’s another news story that will go live in about half an hour.

Oh, the life of a busy New Media executive . . .

 

Category: Journalism

Comments

59 Responses to “So … This Is Now News”

  1. WJJ Hoge
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:04 pm

    Congratulations, Stacy!

  2. wjjhoge
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:04 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM So … This Is Now News http://t.co/RQI6fECzCN #TCOT

  3. Dan Collins
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:09 pm

    Congrats. The drinking is now mandatory!

  4. Jackie Wellfonder
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:12 pm

    Awesome!

  5. Linda
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:13 pm

    awesome news! they were smart to snatch up such an impeccably sharp writer.

  6. Osceola Pundit
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:22 pm

    Sorry to see this. The site looks amateurish at best, and while you have been successful in many endeavors, Mr. Akbar has a record of numerous failed projects.
    With that being said, it is the hallmark of a southern gentleman to support his friends so best of luck.

  7. AnthonyAbides
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:23 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM So … This Is Now News http://t.co/RQI6fECzCN #TCOT

  8. Garym
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:38 pm

    Good Job RSM! Now go hire Jeff Goldstein and Bob Belvedere as contributors ……

  9. Ookla the Mok (D)
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:38 pm

    Friggin’ A – Awesome!

  10. ProudoftheUSA
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:42 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM So … This Is Now News http://t.co/RQI6fECzCN #TCOT

  11. ProudoftheUSA
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:43 pm

    I hear congrats are in order? @smitty_one_each

  12. CitizenEgg
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm

    Congrats to you Stacy! Have fun and kick ass!

  13. rosalie
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:49 pm

    I think Viralread has a very good chance of being successful with you on board. The very best to you.

  14. ThomasD
    March 13th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm

    Try not to forget us peons on your rise to fame and fortune.

  15. Daria DiGiovanni
    March 13th, 2013 @ 2:27 pm

    Congrats Stacy!!! 🙂

  16. GAHCindy
    March 13th, 2013 @ 2:31 pm

    Awesome!

  17. Paul Zummo
    March 13th, 2013 @ 2:32 pm

    Congrats Stacy!

  18. JeffS
    March 13th, 2013 @ 2:54 pm

    Congratulations!

  19. Finrod Felagund
    March 13th, 2013 @ 3:05 pm

    Hooray, I added this news to RSM’s wikipedia page.

  20. Adjoran
    March 13th, 2013 @ 3:42 pm

    Congratulations! And announced on the same day as the new Pope is elected . . . coincidence? I think not!

    Best wishes for the success of ViralRead.com going forward. This seems a good start, with an editor of more experience and ability than, say, that of The Atlantic.

    I hope both you and Pope Francis will retain the humility to remember the little people, the readers, to whom you must minister. Also remember the debt you owe to the cockroaches and vermin like Brent, Neal, Bill, and Barrett: there is no greater affirmation of a good man than the unity of the forces of evil against him.

    Good luck! I drink to your first plaintive cry of “Rewrite!”

  21. Adjoran
    March 13th, 2013 @ 3:43 pm

    You think of yourself as a gentleman?

    Bless your heart!

  22. Finrod Felagund
    March 13th, 2013 @ 4:06 pm

    It would be nice, though, if I could use my disqus login at viralread.com. I’m the rare creature that doesn’t use facebook or twitter.

  23. Steve in TN ™
    March 13th, 2013 @ 4:10 pm

    Been reading you (and linking way back when) from the beginning and I hate change, but Congrats anyway.

  24. Finrod Felagund
    March 13th, 2013 @ 4:11 pm

    Or, at a minimum, a moral imperative.

  25. Physics Geek
    March 13th, 2013 @ 4:28 pm

    Excellent news. Maybe the tip jar will start to fill itself now.

  26. Katie Scarlet
    March 13th, 2013 @ 4:34 pm

    congrats! so will you still be blogging daily? I hope so!

  27. rosalie
    March 13th, 2013 @ 6:18 pm

    I thought I was the only one.

  28. NickLevi86
    March 13th, 2013 @ 6:30 pm

    Excellent. Maybe you can get paid officially now. Just remember your own advice to a similar endeavor: “It had better not suck.”

  29. K-Bob
    March 13th, 2013 @ 6:44 pm

    Second that.

    I think I signed up for facebook a long time ago. Then they started sending me emails which I just deleted. Now they don’t. So I’m happy.

    I never actually “did” anything on the site, though. And I couldn’t remember either my ID or password if you offered me money.

  30. K-Bob
    March 13th, 2013 @ 6:51 pm

    Congratulations!

    I hope you get to make those young whippersnappers write like they actually understand the business.

    (Whoah! Job one is to get some graphics help. Even the logo is fuzzy.)

  31. gerardv
    March 13th, 2013 @ 6:56 pm

    Stacy is just the sort of antibiotic viral read needs! Mazeltov.

  32. Garym
    March 13th, 2013 @ 6:59 pm

    Same here. I would lose business if any of my clients knew everything about me along with my politics.

  33. Esau's Message
    March 13th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm

    Congratulations, Stacy!

  34. Esau's Message
    March 13th, 2013 @ 7:08 pm

    Not as rare as you think.

  35. How becoming a conservative blogger cured me — Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian
    March 13th, 2013 @ 7:08 pm

    […] able to cover someone to care for my father tomorrow. (And congratulations to Stacy, who was named editor-in-chief of ViralRead.com today!) However, I still need to raise $300 to pay the  caregiver for Friday, plus my gas, […]

  36. Matthew W
    March 13th, 2013 @ 7:23 pm

    What’s facebook and twitter??

  37. Animal
    March 13th, 2013 @ 7:43 pm

    Congratulations, and good luck!

  38. Blogger News | Animal Magnetism
    March 13th, 2013 @ 7:52 pm

    […] blogger Robert Stacy McCain of The Other McCain, he of Rule Five fame, has a new gig –  as Editor in Chief of ViralRead.com.  Apparently blogging can indeed lead to bigger […]

  39. Wombat_socho
    March 13th, 2013 @ 7:55 pm

    The tip jar NEVER fills itself. And with #UnsustainableBarTab looming this weekend, can there be a better time to hit the freaking tip jar?

  40. Wombat_socho
    March 13th, 2013 @ 7:55 pm

    Does this mean the gruel ration sequester’s been revoked? 😉

  41. richard mcenroe
    March 13th, 2013 @ 8:02 pm

    What’s this I hear? Editor Stacy is buying a round for everyone at BlogBash?

  42. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 13th, 2013 @ 8:05 pm

    Ali and Stacy should buy all your drinks for CPAC Smitty. And the same goes for Wombat! Congratulations.

  43. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 13th, 2013 @ 8:06 pm

    That is a damn fine suggestion? Hire Jeff Goldstein for rhetorical and philosophical enforcement.

  44. Garym
    March 13th, 2013 @ 8:38 pm

    Hee Hee!

  45. Bob Belvedere
    March 13th, 2013 @ 9:09 pm

    Let me translate for you…
    Facebook is pig knuckles / Twitter is bacon.

  46. Quartermaster
    March 13th, 2013 @ 9:12 pm

    I don’t no neither either.

  47. Quartermaster
    March 13th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm

    If RSM quits blogging here, we will need to swing the BanHammer [TM] on RSM. I’d prefer at least a 10lb head be used for the mission.

  48. Quartermaster
    March 13th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm

    I’m Shocked! Shocked! That RSM didn’t so those most important words his own self. perhaps the new found wealth is already having a mental effect on the proprietor.

  49. AnonymousDrivel
    March 13th, 2013 @ 9:40 pm

    Congratulations! Just think… in another 27 years or so, you just might make something of yourself at this gig.

    But seriously, go forth and prosper young man. I look forward to a new bookmarking.

  50. K-Bob
    March 14th, 2013 @ 4:59 am

    A comedy act from the days of Buster Keaton?

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