Behind The Big Money, with Editor in Chief James Ledbetter

The Big Money’s
James Ledbetter

Veteran business-news journalist James Ledbetter, who has held senior editorial positions at Time magazine, CNN Money and The Village Voice, discusses his latest media venture, The Big Money. A member of the Slate Group of digital-media news outlets, The Big Money “focuses on all important aspects of economics and money without getting bogged down in arcane statistics or impenetrable jargon.” “It’s a tough time across the board, but one of the things about The Slate Group is that the sites are launched with relatively low cost structures,” Jim, who serves as The Big Money’s editor in chief, tells host Bill Brazell. “So I do not have a big staff. We do not stay in five-star hotels. We don’t throw lavish parties – like Condé Nast once did. And while there’s no question it’s been challenging to get advertising revenue, we are growing and . . . starting to reconnect with the advertising community.” Jim is also the editor of Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx and of Made Possible By ...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States.