![]() This site features a collection of blogs about a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues written by academics, journalists and former public officials among others. Talking Points Memo experienced the largest surge in traffic, growing from 32,000 unique visitors in September 2007 to 458,000 unique visitors in September 2008, a 1,321% year-to-year increase in the size of its audience. ĭuring the 2008 US election campaign, many independent news sites and political blogs saw a wave of "explosive growth". In the fall of 2003, as people focused on the failure to find WMD's in Iraq, there was a new surge of traffic to the site "I remember there being peak days of 60,000-page views, which was really incredible." Marshall started selling ads on his site and by the end of 2004 was earning $10,000 a month, making him one of a handful of what The New York Times Magazine dubbed "elite bloggers" who earned enough money to make blogging a full-time occupation. Īs a result of the Lott story, traffic to Talking Points Memo spiked from 8,000 to 20,000 page views a day. According to Harvard Kennedy School, Marshall was instrumental in fueling the ensuing scandal that eventually led to Trent Lott's resignation as Senate Minority Leader. In 2002, Marshall used Talking Points Memo to report on Trent Lott's controversial comments praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential run as a segregationist. He left his job at the Prospect early in 2001 and continued to blog while writing for The Washington Monthly, The Atlantic, The New Yorker,, and the New York Post. "And, obviously, given the issues that I had with the Prospect, that appealed to me a lot." "I really liked what seemed to me to be the freedom of expression of this genre of writing," Marshall told the Columbia Journalism Review. Inspired by political bloggers such as Mickey Kaus and Andrew Sullivan, Marshall started Talking Points Memo during the 2000 Florida election recount. Marshall at the Personal Democracy Forum in May 2007 He often clashed with the top editors at the Prospect, over both ideology and the direction of the website. He worked for the Prospect for three years and in 1999 moved to D.C. Marshall began writing freelance articles about Internet free speech for The American Prospect in 1997 and was soon hired as an associate editor. In the mid-1990s, Marshall designed websites for law firms and published an online news site about Internet law, which included interviews with prominent scholars such as Lawrence Lessig. He is a graduate of the Webb Schools of California and Princeton University and earned a PhD in American history from Brown University. Marshall's father was a professor of marine biology. He’s created something new." Early life and career Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at The New Yorker, compared Marshall to the influential founders of Time magazine, saying: "Marshall is in the line of the great light-bulb-over-the-head editors. Marshall and his work have been profiled by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, National Public Radio, The New York Times Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bill Moyers Journal, and GQ. A liberal, he currently presides over a network of progressive-oriented sites that operate under the TPM Media banner and average 400,000-page views every weekday and 750,000 unique visitors every month. ![]() Joshua Micah Jesajan-Dorja Marshall (born February 15, 1969) is an American journalist and blogger who founded Talking Points Memo.
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