Wired’s Kwong joins 404 Media
Evelyn Kwong has joined tech news site 404 Media as a contributor. She has been director of social and multiplatform strategy at Wired. She previously was a staff writer and senior editor for audience at The Toronto Star. Kwong also worked at Vice News and The Guardian. She is a graduate of Ryerson University.
404 Media founders: Paying for content works
Jason Koebler, Samantha Cole, Emanuel Maiberg and Joseph Cox, founders of tech news site 404 Media, write what they have learned two years into striking out on their own. Koebler, Cole, Maiber and Cox write, “It has been a relief that this business strategy of ‘publish good articles and ask people to pay for journalism’ […]
Tech site objects to Texas AG subpoena
Tech news site 404 Media is objecting to a subpoena from the Texas attorney general asking for a Google database. The founders of 404 Media write, “This subpoena undermines the free and independent press. It also highlights the fact that the alarm bells that have been raised about legal attacks on journalists in a second […]
Why tech site 404 Media began requiring email address from readers
Hanaa Tameez of Nieman Lab writes about 404 Media, the new tech news site founded by four former members of Motherboard. Tameez writes, “Until January, most stories from 404 Media were available to read for free. But after the four cofounders discovered — through their own reporting — that their stories were being scraped, paraphrased by AI text […]
