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Article: Former CBS correspondent runs online news site.(Columbia Broadcasting System)
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- Fairfield County Business Journal
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- June 21, 2004
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What a former CBS News foreign correspondent started last year in Westport as an experiment now appears to be gaining in popularity, although it may never become a big money maker.
Gordon F. Joseloff, a former CBS correspondent in Moscow and Tokyo, began online newspaper WestportNow.com, which provides local coverage that he says can't be found elsewhere.
"No one's going to make a whole lot of money off this," he said. "That's not my intent."
But he does hope to increase advertising, which may show an independent local-news Web site can be a viable business. He doesn't pay writers or photographers, except in the form of a WestportNow.com mug or ...