Categories: OLD Media Moves

Real Deal sued by online advertiser

Outbrain, the online advertiser that specializes in presenting sponsored Web site links to digital publishers, claims that real estate news site The Real Deal owes it close to $40,000, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post.

Kelly writes, “Lawyers for Outbrain filed a claim totaling $37,733 in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan against Korangy Publishing, maintaining the company had failed to answer an earlier summons filed on April 20.

“Neither The Real Deal nor Outbrain returned calls seeking comment.”

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The New York-based publication has websites in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New York.

The Real Deal recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. It has a 65,000-circulation monthly magazine and TheRealDeal.com receives more than 1 million unique visitors per month.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.