"Online news visionary" Neil Budde lands at startup DailyMe
Jackson West · 04/04/08 12:00PMNeil Budde, the man who built the pay wall at the Wall Street Journal before moving to Yahoo to lead up their News, Sports and Finance sites, has landed at news aggregator startup DailyMe — guess that gig at the LA Times didn't pan out. Budde left the Journal during the dot-bomb, only to picked up by Terry Semel in the executive hiring spree that included Lloyd Braun. How does Fort Lauderdale-based DailyMe differentiate itself from aggregators like Budde's old Yahoo News or the Huffington Post? A special application that automatically prints your personalized news at home on a set schedule — which sounds an awful lot like those "news to your fax machine" services from yesteryear.