2paragraphs
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Type of site | News and Culture |
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| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Founder(s) | Mary Fichter Joseph Mackin |
| Website | 2paragraphs |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
2paragraphs is a nonpartisan American online news aggregator and blog founded in 2012. The site is named so for presenting every article in 2 paragraphs with the purpose of presenting concise knowledge to its readers.[1] The site offers news, blogs, reviews, interviews and articles on politics, business, entertainment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, and news in 2 paragraphs.[2]
History
2paragraphs was co-founded by Mary Fichter and Joseph Mackin in 2012. Joseph Mackin was the original Internet Editor of The Paris Review, he also built an internet database referral service PerfectYourself.com, which was purchased by Renaissance Media/Red Spot Interactive. Mary Fichter was the Director of Marketing & Communications for the National Academy Museum, American Craft Council, and OgilvyOne worldwide. She has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in Political Science from Purdue University.[3]
Contributors
2paragraphs contributors include former ambassadors Steven Pifer, Steven Sestanovich, and Paul W. Hare on foreign affairs, celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower on food, former US FCC Chair Reed Hundt on energy and communications, novelists Bobbie Ann Mason, Roxana Robinson and Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, graphic designer Paula Scher, poet and Farrar, Straus and Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi, chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (OBE) on Syria, Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff of CSIS, Richard K. Betts of Council on Foreign Relations, Boston University’s Andrew Bacevich, Juliane Furst at Harvard’s Davis Center, and Roger Pilon at the Cato Institute.
References
- ↑ "Liberal Moral Superiority". cato.org. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ↑ "Media for Our Challenged Attention Spans". tinypass.com. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Co-founders". 2paragraphs.com. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
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