Is coindesk getting paid for articles?

gweedo

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Quote from: maurya78 on May 13, 2014, 05:38:14 AM

I don't think so
My impression of coindesk to date is quite favourable in that the overall coverage tone feels pretty balanced to me

Think about it, blogging makes no money. Why else would Shakil Khan start one? Oh because he has a lot of money and it would be a great platform for his startup investments. So to make coindesk some what profitable they charge small startups for these fuff pieces. Trust me I know when people are just using words to make something technical sound like it is good when they don't even understand it.

Read this http://www.coindesk.com/inputs-io-a-high-security-bitcoin-web-wallet/ TF even told me, he paid them to just write that.

Also look at how much coverage bitpay gets, they are a company Shakil Khan invested in.

maurya78

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I don't think so
My impression of coindesk to date is quite favourable in that the overall coverage tone feels pretty balanced to me

aliceHortrex

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CryptoTalk.Org - Get Paid for every Post!

Maybe you should try Cointelegraph.com? Cheesy

bitkoof

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CoinDesker

We have never been paid to write articles. Leave a comment or even better - contact the journalist if you feel there are mistakes in the articles.

Also, we have no control over this forum, so cannot delete messages!

We have actually had complaints about being negative to a few companies, so you cannot please everyone.
http://www.coindesk.com/editorial-policy/

We are currently still looking for reporters - funnily enough not too many journalists are digital currency experts

http://www.coindesk.com/jobs/journalist/

Thanks

bitkeef

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I've just read a few recent articles. They seem to positive about anything and don't actually give you the negatives, for example they talk about a few services which they explain are secure, great and reliable. But, don't give too much of the negatives. This does indicate that they may be getting paid for reviewing such services. Or, they haven't done much research or used the service themselves and have simply looked at it and taken a wild guess.

But, I guess that's my own opinion and they may not be getting paid and researching the services into detail.

gweedo

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I recently commented on a coindesk article pointing out a lot of flaws, and I also said "The article sounds like the author got paid to write it". Then next thing I know my comment was deleted. This leads me to believe that coindesk is actually getting paid to write articles. It was a good news place while it lasted, but now I am not going to read them anymore due to that. Before everyone claims I was trolling, I wasn't and actually the article had a lot of flaws which show they didn't do the easy research or were just writing a fluff piece.

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