Reddit

Co-founders of Reddit Exit Conde Nast

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 27, 2009 - 12:16pm.

New York - The founders of social news service Reddit, who three years sold their company to publisher Conde Nast, have announced that they are leaving the company, PaidContent reported, citing a post on the Reddit blog. Co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian said in the post that they plan to pursue other interests.

Analysis: Digg and Reddit Are Highly Niche Sites

Authored by Scott Karp on September 14, 2007 - 12:16am.

The Project For Excellence in Journalism compared the news coverage of social news sites Digg, Reddit, and Delicious to that of mainstream media and found, not surprisingly, not a lot of overlap. What I found most notable is the report mistakenly assumes that the news on Digg and Reddit reflect the interests of their entire user base:

Wired Digital Acquires News Aggregation Site Reddit.com

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 31, 2006 - 2:33pm.

San Francisco - Wired Digital, the San Francisco-based online home of Wired magazine and Wired News, said on Tuesday that it has acquired Boston-based Reddit.com, a social aggregation news site that allows users to select and rank Web content.