The Dispatch Buys SCOTUSblog, a Supreme Court Mainstay

The New York Times [no paywall]: “…The site is being acquired by The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up founded by the conservative journalists Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes. The deal is part of a strategy to “double down on rigorous reporting and analysis in topic areas where we already have meaningful advantages,” Michael Rothman, the start-up’s president, said. “We plan to replicate this approach with other subjects, including national security, tech, education and conservation,” he added. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SCOTUSblog is something of a outlier in the quirky annals of digital media. Though blogging has fallen out of favor as social media has grown increasingly popular, SCOTUSblog, with its die-hard readership of legal obsessives [this is a strange term for readers of expert legal content], has remained curiously durable. Specialization has been a selling point among digital publishers that have endured, such as the tech site The Information or the travel industry news site Skift…” [Comment – beSpacific has always been an independent, one woman researched and published daily blog. I will not be referencing SCOTUSblog in future posts.]