We are announcing a new partnership today with WashingtonPost.com – TechCrunch stories will be syndicated to their site and added to the Technology section. The press release is here.
I think this is a good experiment for the Washington Post – adding new types of content to the site to retain reader interest, over and above their existing stories. And this is certainly a great partnership for us, allowing us to get our content in front of a larger, more mainstream audience.
For now there are no comments on stories, which is something I hope they change in the near future. Ideally they’d have comments and we’d sync them together from both posts, creating an even livelier discussion.
Well done, that’s impressive. Hope it works out well too.
Congratulations Michael.
Way to go guys! This seems like a great partnership.
Well done Mike and TechCrunch. After all your Dream Team vision to taken CNET looks like its in motion. Prediction-> TechCrunch to have 1.5 Million Subscribers by end July..lol. Congrats
Congrats Mike, Erick, et al…
Congrats Mike and team!
Congrats! Really great accomplishment.
good for you Michael! Congrats..
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btw, did Duncan know about this? what a big chance to miss for exporsure
Congratulation.
I hope they don’t influence your writings. We enjoy reading TC the way it is now.
This is a great partnership Michael. I just wish I could really get http://crenk.com up to that stage!
wow the line really is blurring.
does this mean we get to bust your chops about “journalism” now?
Thats a great accomplishment. It is great to see mainstream media taking steps like this one to incorporate on the ground niche publishing content, because as it has been proven time and time again stories break on blogs first, and the newspapers after that. Huge win for Techcrunch, but a huge value add for the Washington Post in covering truly breaking technology news.
sounds like RSS to me?
http://blogs.or...do-woman-t.html
congrats! the perspectives found on blogs are becoming increasingly interesting to readers….
We did a partnership like this with a russian website, except they never actually partnered with us, and just started scrapping our feed and calling it their own.
You deal sounds a little better, congrats.
This is awesome, the only way the old newspapers are going to survive is embracing a site like Techcrunch, congrats
Great move. WaPo biz section has been a big disappointment, until now.
So you hanging out with big guys now, Good for you. Congrats
It’s good for techcrunch but the washpost.com web site just became a little less credible. Sorry.
great – now all you need is genuine and consistent journalistic integrity, drop the reviews of pligg installations, don’t use posts to lambast valleywag-style and run spell check regularly and you should be good to go!
Next thing you know, they’ll be co-publishing The Inquirer.
Congratulations, that’s good news, wish you the best of luck with it.
awesome – great news. 1st one of times top 100… and now syndicated the wp!
Now just gotta get rid of garbage post like salmon put in!
well done mate.
Congrats!
Great works, mainstream media now needs social media
Very cool Micheal — well done, great to see TC getting MSM exposure. We’re behind ya.
if I may ask, is that a rev share deal?
Interesting… There is no violent riots. I’m reading first Tibetan woman walking Olympic flame on communist or maoist soil to the mountain Everest. It’s great.
It’s never on top story… I think Reuters & some news got it. Half of news failed to deliever on front page. It’s shame for some failing medias.
I’ve waste my time reading Myanmar problem. The whole country send them million dollar aiding. What else is the problem?
NOAA workers fell a sleep without giving early warning.
Yes, congrats.
However, “Ideally they’d have comments and we’d sync them together from both posts” may not be such a good idea (from WashPost’s side). TC has a LOT of very abusive commenters…and while the culture of TC (on the TC site, that is) can handle that, I doubt the mainstreamers on WashPost will be amenable to such “lively” (sometimes explicative-laden) discussions.
TC would have to implement a more strict comment moderation policy to make a go of that.
Entering the mainstream… congrats TC!
@ Some Failing Media
What’s up, Mr. Off-Topic-n-Convoluted? LOL
Congratulations! Now, the holy grail, the NY Times. Maybe, one day the Journal, too.
Rumor-driven reporting based on speculation and gossip is what we strived for during my long tenure with the Post. The kind of factless slander TechCrunch routinely delivers reminds me of Woodward & Bernstein’s Watergate coverage in the 70s. Congratulations! – Katherine
Other mainstream media organizations should look at this and take note. It’s going to take creativity, partnerships and a more forward looking approach to same their industry, but its not rocket science. Content is king, even if that means pulling it from the blogosphere.
Nice work, Mike!
Nice job!
Well, Some media are professional liars and cowards.
Everything else is setup by secret governments… They tried to make you believe it. For example: 9/11, SARS, Katrina, Tsunmai, WMD, Michael Jackson, Britney spears, rising oil prices, etc… All of these belong to UFO conspiracy project, Extreme Fat Americans, and drunken idiots.
I jump WashingtonPost to see if they are professional liars. I guess not.
Congrats to Mike and the entire TechCrunch team
breaking…. murdoch buys techcrunch
Mike – Congrats – going mainstream – nicely done.
Blake
Visible Technologies
Smart move guys. Congratulations!
I think it’s a very nice partnership.
Congrats Michael this is awesome news, for your blog and most of all for the Start-ups you present here!
wow, I wonder how much that’s going to increase awareness of web startups?
I guess you beat scoble now for selling out, huh?
Congratulations Michael and the TC team!
Congrats!
I wonder if they are going to filter out plugs and speculations… if they do, they would only get an article a day
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DEATH TO NEWSPRINT!
Lots of stuff written on Techcrunch may be well intentioned but is often totally wrong and almost always pure gossip. I know that some may think that this is where journalism is going. I certainly hope this is not the case. Techcrunch serves a purpose, albeit in a very muddled way. You’re a gossip rag. You write about start-ups but you’d prefer to be much more. Why aren’t you? It all comes down to quality. It’s just not there. Once a rag always a rag. It’s ok though. Be the best rag you can be.
I think it’s a good idea to partner with Techcrunch to add some breadth to their coverage, but I hope the Post doesn’t rely too much on TC contributions. Their technology section used to be a lot stronger than it is now, and I feel like this will only add to their increasing lack of local tech coverage.