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== Growth == ''Talking Points Memo'' was founded as a political blog in 2000 by [[Josh Marshall]], who until 2004 was the site's sole employee.<ref name="Seward-2008">{{cite news |last1=Seward |first1=Zachary M. |title=TPM sees room for growth through geotargeted advertising |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2008/12/tpm-sees-room-for-growth-through-geotargeted-advertising/ |work=[[Nieman Lab]] |date=December 2, 2008}}</ref> In 2005, TPM Media LLC was incorporated,<ref name="Seward-2008"/> and the company began to grow with more employees and spinoff websites.<ref name=AJR-2009>{{cite journal|last=Carmichael|first= Karen|title=Capital investment: Talking Points Memo launches a Washington bureau, augmenting its reporting firepower|journal=[[American Journalism Review]]|volume=31|issue=5|year=2009|page=8}}</ref> By 2009 it had 11 employees, and, having previously been funded by ads and reader donations,<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Alterman |first1=Eric |author1-link=Eric Alterman |title=Out of Print |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/31/out-of-print |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=March 24, 2008}}</ref> received [[angel investment]]s from a group led by [[Marc Andreessen]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Noam |title=Now Hiring at Talking Points Memo |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/business/media/13marshall.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 13, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Kevin |title=Andreessen leads funding for US political blog network |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2009/jul/07/blogging-uspolitics-funding-journalism-businessmodel |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=7 July 2009 |language=en}}</ref> In 2009, ''TPM'' opened a Washington, D.C. office and joined the [[White House press pool]] along with several other progressive news outlets to cover the [[Obama administration]].<ref name=AJR-2009/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Calderone |first1=Michael |title=TPM joins the pool and makes a splash |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/10/tpm-joins-the-pool-and-makes-a-splash-028955 |work=[[Politico]] |date=October 30, 2009 |language=en}}</ref> The site introduced a subscription service, TPM Prime, in 2012,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bilton |first1=Richard |title=With 11,000 subscribers, Talking Points Memo says its paid product has helped stabilize its business |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/with-11000-subscribers-talking-points-memo-says-its-paid-product-has-helped-stabilize-its-business/ |website=[[Nieman Lab]] |date=July 19, 2016}}</ref> which by 2017 had over 21,000 subscribers,<ref name=niemanlab-2017-06-29>{{cite web |last1=Owen |first1=Laura Hazard |title=Talking Points Memo doubled its subscribers in a year β now it's trying to find new extras for them |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/06/talking-points-memo-doubled-its-subscribers-in-a-year-now-its-trying-to-find-new-extras-for-them/ |website=[[Nieman Lab]] |date=June 29, 2017}}</ref> and by December 2020 had nearly 35,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |last=Marshall |first=Josh |title=The Push for 35,000 |url=https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-push-for-35000/ |website=Talking Points Memo |date=December 7, 2020}}</ref>
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