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BabyBarista described as ‘enormously popular’ at Vanity Fair Online and The Huffington Post

Thanks to journalist and author Michael Wolff for his recent article which has been published at Vanity Fair Online, The Huffington Post and Newser. In the context of The Times’ paywall he said: “Tim Kevan, the author of the Times’ enormously popular legal blog—BabyBarista—recently announced he was leaving his Murdoch home (where he’s gotten two book deals from his blog) and setting up his own site because he doesn’t want to be in the “exclusive preserve of a limited few subscribers.” In other words, he wants an audience.”

My move from The Times and my comments about the paywall have been covered all over the world and the following are links to over seventy such sites: The Guardian, Bloomsberg, New Statesman, Media Week, The Bar Council, The New Lawyer, American Bar Association Journal, Estates Gazette, Prof George Brock, Charon QC, Geeklawyer, Phancee, Business Insider, Infamy or Praise, Editors Weblog, Tech Dirt, le monde, LawDent, Family Lore, Android’s Reminiscences, Delia Venables, f/k/a, Jobsworth, Binary Law, slaw, Broadcast Journalism, The Wall, Journalism.co.uk, Pragmatist, Criminal Law and Evidence, Memex 1.1, Practice Source, Felix Salmon at Reuters, Media Gazer, White Rabbit, Trainee Lawyer, Exile On Moan Street, Malice in Wonderland, The Latest on PPC, Media Bistro, Legal News, Martin Stabe, CyclothymicMusings, You Get The Info, Cyber Culturalist, Alexandre Gamela, Whyte Wolf, It’s Digital PR News, J Source, A-Z of Global Warming Of Interest to Lawyers, Legal Sleaze, Cision, Campaign, DMA, Paid Content, Poblish, Silo Breaker, Medie Varlden (Swedish), De Jaap (Dutch), Ger Timmer (Dutch), Media Facts (Dutch), I Love Media (Dutch), Media Ned (Dutch), ABC Spain (Spanish), 233 Grados (Spanish), Lola Como Mola (Spanish), The Protocol Droid (Spanish), LaInformacion (Spanish), FayerWayer (Spanish), Direnet (Spanish), El Diario Digital (Spanish) Universidad de Sevilla (Spanish), Golpedegato (Spanish), elarea.com (Spanish), El Otro Juan (Spanish), Dziennik Internautów (Polish) and Alternative Blog (Japanese).

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June 11, 2010 · Tim Kevan · 4 Comments
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