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- Forbes.com – 09/22/08 – Wall Street Journal Gets Tributes.com-Powered Obits
You wouldn’t typically think of The Wall Street Journal for its obituaries, but if you’re going to be a national newspaper (albeit one that happens to focus heavily on business), then they’re a standard ingredient in the stew.
- The New York Times – 09/15/08 – New Web Site to Track and Honor the Deceased
Jeff Taylor, founder of the online job search site, Monster.com and the site Eons.com for people born from 1946 to 1964, said he started the company after he noticed that “obituaries are the last section of the newspaper to migrate to the Web.”
- USA Today – 07/01/08 – Monster founder thinks obituaries will pay off with Tributes.com
“Fourteen years ago, Jeff Taylor helped set off a tectonic shift in recruitment advertising by founding Monster.com, one of the first online companies to challenge a big profit source of newspapers. Now, just as papers are reeling from a massive drainage of ad dollars online, Taylor thinks he's found another one of their strongholds that's ripe for online competition: Obituaries.”
- MSNBC – 05/05/08 – Monster.com Founder's New Venture To Die For
“Web site serves as clearinghouse for obituaries and death notices”
- Wired – 05/05/08 – Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead
“Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you'll ever need. ”
- Portfolio – 04/25/08 – Death March
“Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor is hoping to wrest control of paid death notices from the newspaper industry, just as he did with employment postings.”
- NPR – 04/08/08 – Obits Online
“It's no secret that newspapers are going through tough times. But it's not a great sign when they're investing in a company that could help write their own obituaries.”
