Big business enters the news business

The Richmond Standard, a news web site in Richmond, Calif., is "one of the more polished sites to emerge in the age of hyper-local digital news brands," Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson writes. Then he explains: "That may be because it is run and funded by Chevron, the $240 billion oil group which owns the Richmond refinery that in August 2012 caught fire, spewing plumes of black smoke over the city and sending more than 15,000 residents to hospital for medical help."

September 26, 2014

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