Salon Corporate Profile
Salon Media Group, Inc. (Salon) is an Internet media company that produces a network of ten subject-specific Web sites (of which one is an audio streaming Web site), hosts two online subscription communities, and features Salon Premium, a paid subscription service.
Salon believes that its network of Web sites combines the thoughtfulness of print, the timeliness of television and the interactivity of talk radio.
The main entry and navigation point to Salon's Web sites is Salon's home page at www.salon.com. Salon's Web sites provide a continuously updated array of news, features, interviews and regular columnists and include the following:
Salon News
Salon News features breaking stories and investigative journalism, as well as interviews with newsmakers, politicians and pundits.
Salon Opinion
Opinion features trenchant ideas and perspectives on the news of the day and issues percolating to the surface by regular columnists like Joe Conason as well as a constantly changing cast of contributors. Opinion includes features like Right Hook, a weekly roundup of conservative commentary and analysis.
Salon Technology & Business
Smart, opinionated coverage of Internet news and digital culture from today's best technology writers, along with in-depth features about the business world and the economy. Technology & Business offers daily feature stories; reviews of books, hardware, software and Web sites.
Salon Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment features movie, music and television reviews and interviews. The site includes frequent television features and extended film coverage including actor and director interviews.
Salon Life
Life features articles by thought-provoking writers about family life, motherhood and women's lives and issues.
Salon Books
Books includes ahead-of-the-curve daily book reviews; interviews with today's most interesting writers; Book Bag, a weekly dose of must-reads recommended by celebrated authors; and the Salon Book Awards, an annual literary event honoring the year's best books.
Salon Comics
The site features the works of comic luminaries Tom Tomorrow, Ruben Bolling, Carol Lay and Keith Knight.
Salon has two online subscription communities, The Well and Table Talk, which allow users to interact and discuss Salon content with other users and Salon's editorial staff. Salon frequently arranges for featured guests, including well-known commentators and writers, to join discussions on The Well. The Well is a member-only discussion community while Table Talk is available for all Internet users to read, but only subscribers may post. The two online communities had approximately 4,400 paying subscribers as of March 31, 2002.
Salon believes that its original, award-winning content allows Salon to attract and retain users who are younger, more affluent, better educated and more likely to make online purchases than typical Internet users. Salon believes its user profile makes its network of websites and online communities a valuable media property for advertisers and retailers who are allocating marketing resources to target consumers online.
Salon has won most major Web awards including three Webbys, "Best Website" by Entertainment Weekly, "Best of the Web" by Business Week and "Website of the Year" by Time magazine and the Year 2000 "General Excellence in Online Journalism Original to the Web" and "Enterprise Journalism Original to the Web" -- Online Journalism Awards sponsored by the Online News Association and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
