I hope more small papers seek out well done journalism wherever they can find it. At TheLadders we tried to send our articles to small papers to reprint for free. We sat on a cache of profiles from people in big and small towns nationwide. We wanted to feed local stories to whoever could use them locally. Ultimately, we envisioned a sort of syndication service covering labor issues for papers that couldn’t afford to.

We had pretty limited interest from publications. I think they didn’t trust the independence of our operation under the banner of a brand with something to sell.

Hopefully more small pubs will look to alternative sources like the Huffington Post, TheLadders and other non-traditional (HuffPo is pretty trafidional) sources of content.