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Ars Technica is a technology news site owned by Conde Nast that covers gadgets, gaming, science, and policy.

The site was founded in 1998 by Ken Fisher, who remains its editor-in-chief. It was acquired by Conde Nast in 2008 for about $25 million and had a staff of about 10 as of 2009. (It added full-time sales staff in 2012.) While the site is relatively small to with other tech blogs like TechCrunch and Gizmodo, it is quite influential and is known for its in-depth articles.

Ars Technica has sold premium-content subscriptions since 2001, though it is primarily funded by advertising. In 2010, it tried blocking its site to users who used ad-blocking web browsers. The site has also sold some of its content as Kindle ebooks.

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Recent Nieman Lab coverage:

Dec. 2, 2015 / Madeline Welsh, Joseph Lichterman, and Shan Wang

The mobile adblocking apocalypse hasn’t arrived (at least not yet) — The German tabloid Bild, the highest-circulation paper in Europe, has considered just about every option when it comes to combatting adblockers. (One in four Germans uses one.) It’s tried the courts. Its parent com...

Sept. 25, 2013 / Caroline O'Donovan

Branded and owned by GE, run by Atlantic Media Strategies, Ideas Lab is a test for brand journalism — Brock Meeks remembers a time when online journalism of any stripe made media types as wary and disgruntled as sponsored content makes them today. Meeks, a ten-year veteran of MSNBC and former investigative journalist, sa...

July 25, 2012 / Andrew Phelps

Ars Technica fights through hassles to sell John Siracusa’s OS X review as an ebook — Developing ebooks can be a pain, but there is money to be made in repurposing otherwise free content....

July 22, 2011 / Andrew Phelps

Ars Technica tries a new way to monetize a much-anticipated article with a Kindle ebook for Mac fans — It by now nearly qualifies as an ancient ritual in the tech world: Apple releases a new version of Mac OS X, and Ars Technica's John Siracusa delivers a comprehensive, almost scriptural, review of it. A Siracusa review i...

July 7, 2010 / Laura McGann

WBUR app inches public radio toward mobile fundraising — Apple just approved a local public radio iPhone app, now in the iTunes store, that promises to deliver “localism, journalism, participation and monetation” — goals set out by the Corporation for Public ...

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