Salon.com

Salon.com is an Internet-based media company founded in 1995 by editor-in-chief David Talbot and several other colleagues from the San Francisco Examiner. Though providing several services, it is best known for its online magazine, with content updated each weekday. Its headquarters are located in downtown San Francisco, California.

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Internet - Media - 1995 - David Talbot - San Francisco Examiner - Magazine - San Francisco, California

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Salon's magazine covers a variety of topics. American politics is a major focus, but by no means the only one. It has extensive reviews and articles about music, books, and films. It also has articles about "modern life" in all its forms, including relationships and sex. It covers technology, with a particular focus on the free software/open source movement.

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American politics - Music - Book - Film - Modern - Sex - Technology - Free software - Open source

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Salon covers all of these issues from an unabashedly liberal political viewpoint, although the site has also featured regular columns from such conservatives as David Horowitz and Andrew Sullivan.

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Liberal - Conservative - David Horowitz - Andrew Sullivan

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Its contributors include political cartoonists such as Tom Tomorrow, author of This Modern World, Ruben Bolling, author of Tom the Dancing Bug, and Keith Knight, author of The K Chronicles.

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Tom Tomorrow - This Modern World - Ruben Bolling - Tom the Dancing Bug - Keith Knight - The K Chronicles

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Its online subscription-only discussion boards, Table Talk and The WELL, are quite popular.

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