Forecasts of stores' demise in 2009 over the top - St. Petersburg Times
Consumerist.com gets 10-million page views a month. Retailing may well skip off the track for most of 2009, but I'm not ready to buy into it becoming quite the train wreck envisioned by some industry Cassandras. Some experts are predicting another ...

Consumer Reports consumes Consumerist - Venturebeat.com
Gawker Media , the publisher of popular blogs such as Gawker and Jezebel , has sold its Consumerist blog to Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports . Consumerist snarkily brings readers product deals and discounts as well as critiques and ...

Consumers Union to Buy Gawker Blog Consumerist - Blueridgenow.com
Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce on Wednesday that it had acquired Consumerist.com, a popular blog formerly owned by Gawker Media. Consumerist is one of several sites Gawker has sold this year ...

Consumerist.com Adopted by Old-School Consumers Union - MarketingVOX
Hoping to win more youthful readers (and some insta-hipster clout), Consumers Union — the publisher of Consumer Reports — is purchasing Consumerist.com , a cheeky consumer advocate blog owned by Gawker Media . Unlike Gawker, which is selling a ...

Consumers Union Buys Consumerist - Consumerist.com
Chris and Carey are back! Meghann Marco is promoted to co-executive editor and will reign supreme alongside Ben Popken. The only ads will be for Consumer Reports and Consumers Union-related stuff. There will be a new privacy policy and user agreement ...

Gawker Blog Consumerist - Lucianne.com
Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce on Wednesday that it had acquired Consumerist.com, a popular blog formerly owned by Gawker Media. Consumerist is one of several sites Gawker has sold this year ...

Consumers Union buys Consumerist.com from Gawker - Minneapolis Star Tribune
NEW YORK - Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce today that it has acquired Consumerist.com , a popular blog owned by Gawker Media. Consumerist, which announced the sale on its website Tuesday, is ...

Consumers Union/Consumer Reports buys Consumerist.com - Huffingtonpost.com
Consumer Reports has a great reputation for trustworthiness, and is doing a great job getting into new media. The Net creates new platforms and new ways to protect consumers, and Consumerist has been very effective in that regards. Consumers Union ...

Gawker Sells Consumerist To Consumer Reports - Alleyinsider.com
Nick Denton's Gawker Media has sold its "Consumerist" blog to Consumer Reports, a source says. We estimate the purchase price was about $1-$2 million, cash (Peter Kafka puts the price at $500,000 or so ). Consumerist contributed about 4% of Gawker's ...

Consumer Reports and the Consumerist- a peculiar union - Walletpop.com
Word comes today that the blog The Consumerist, which plays on the same swing set as WalletPop, has been bought by the Consumers Union , publishers of Consumer Reports. I find this a curious union. Consumer Reports is, to my mind, the best source for ...