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Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group (Template:OTCQB). It publishes articles on U.S. politics, culture, and current events and has a politically progressive, liberal editorial stance.<ref>{{

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Content and coverage

Salon covers a variety of topics, including reviews and articles about books, films, and music;<ref name=about>{{

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According to the senior contributing writer for the American Journalism Review, Paul Farhi, Salon offers "provocative (if predictably liberal) political commentary and lots of sex."<ref>{{

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Salon Premium, a pay-to-view (online) content subscription was introduced on April 25, 2001. The service signed up 130,000 subscribers and staved off discontinuation of services. However, in November 2002, the company announced it had accumulated cash and non-cash losses of $80 million, and by February 2003 it was having difficulty paying its rent and made an appeal for donations to keep the company running. thumb|left|Front-page design in 2006 On October 9, 2003, Michael O'Donnell, the chief executive and president of Salon Media Group, said he was leaving the company after seven years because it was "time for a change." When he left, Salon.com had accrued $83.6 million in losses since its inception, and its stock traded for 5¢ on the OTC Bulletin Board. David Talbot, Salon's chairman and editor-in-chief at the time, became the new chief executive. Elizabeth "Betsy" Hambrecht, then Salon's chief financial officer, became the president.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In July 2008, Salon launched Open Salon, a "social content site" and "curated blog network."<ref name="open salon 1"/> It was nominated for a 2009 National Magazine Award<ref name="open salon 2"/> in the category "best interactive feature". On March 9, 2015, Salon announced it would be closing Open Salon after six years of hosting a community of writers and bloggers.<ref name=OS/>

Salon closed its online chat board "Table Talk" without stating an official reason for ending that section of the site on June 10, 2011.<ref>{{

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Aspects of the Salon.com site offerings, ordered by advancing date:

  • Free content: around 15 new articles posted per-day, revenues wholly derived from in-page advertisements.
    • Per-day new content was reduced for a time.
  • Salon Premium subscription: Approximately 20 percent of new content was made available to subscribers only. Other subscription benefits included free magazines and ad-free viewing. Larger, more conspicuous ad units were introduced for non-subscribers.
  • A hybrid subscription model: Readers can now read content by viewing a 15-second full screen advertisement to earn a "day pass" or gain access by subscribing to Salon Premium.
  • Salon Core: After Salon Premium subscriptions declined from about 100,000 to 10,000, it was rebranded in 2011 as Salon Core subscriptions featuring a different mix of benefits.<ref name="relaunchhufpo"/>
  • In 2018, Salon launched a beta program allowing customers to opt out of advertising in exchange for mining cryptocurrency. <ref name="SalonMiningFAQ">{{
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Otto Warmbier

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Todd Nickerson

In September 2015, Salon published an article written by Todd Nickerson, founder of Virtuous Pedophiles, about his experiences with being a non-offending pedophile, titled: "I’m a pedophile, but not a monster."<ref>Template:Cite news (Also available here on AlterNet.)</ref>

This caused controversy at the time, with some commentators considering it "pro-pedophile"<ref name="nymag">Template:Cite news</ref> and Nickerson himself subject to a "backlash."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

This article, along with an accompanying video<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref> and a follow-up article,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> was deleted in February 2017, supposedly to protect Salon from accusations of hypocrisy when covering Milo Yiannopoulos's alleged support for pedophilia,<ref name="nymag"/> although Salon Media Group CEO and Salon acting editor-in-chief Jordan Hoffner told New York Magazine it was due to unspecified "new editorial policies."<ref name="nymag"/>

Cryptocurrency mining

In February 2018, it was noted that Salon was preventing readers using ad blockers from seeing its content. Such users are offered a choice of disabling their blocker, or allowing Salon to run an in-browser script, using the user's resources, to mine Monero, a form of cryptocurrency.<ref name="Browne">{{

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