Bloomberg-Sponsored SCOTUSblog Up for Sale Next Year

Tom Goldstein, Founder and Publisher of SCOTUSblog, announced this week that his Peabody Award-winning site will be up for sale next year. Goldstein founded

Tom Goldstein, Founder and Publisher of SCOTUSblog, announced this week that his Peabody Award-winning site will be up for sale next year. Goldstein founded the site in 2002 in the hopes of drumming up business for his lay practice, but the site has taken on a life of its own, employing a cadre of reporters and columnists and making Goldstein a popular feature on cable news and talk shows.Now, Subscription Site Central usually only covers the sale or acquisition of subscription sites, but we’re breaking with tradition here because SCOTUSblog would be a smart acquisition for one of the many legal subscription publications out there. The site is currently supported by Bloomberg Law, and considered an “indispensable aid to Supreme Court reporters and lawyers” according to the Associated Press. A savvy publisher could use the incredible brand-recognition and SEO traffic of SCOTUSblog as a prospecting tool for premium subscription services for attorneys working on the appellate level.The delay on the sale seems to be mainly because the blog is lucratively supported by Bloomberg Law.”I do plan to sell the blog next summer,” Goldstein wrote in an email to ABA Journal. “But in the meantime we’re very happily and gratefully sponsored by Bloomberg Law. We’re completely devoted to them. So that process will wait. I’d be surprised if the new owners didn’t want me to be involved, but that will of course be up to them.”Operating expenses for the blog are currently estimated to be $500,000. While the site has no paying subscribers, it does offer an email newsletter and its RSS feed has nearly 13,000 subscribers.

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