Cheezburger founder tells newspapers what they have been doing wrong

Jun 06, 2011, 18:11 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jemima Kiss)

"His solution is a proposal to pull together a crack team of journalists, designers and technologists to devise some open source software that would combine the best elements of the Huffington Post, Wordpress and I Can Haz Cheezburger.

"'It would allow anyone to report breaking news, aggregating different sources and perspectives,' he says. 'People are fed up with the old way of breaking and reporting news and are looking for a genuine transformation in the way news is delivered, so we're taking on a much bigger problem than we originally thought.'"

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