There has been a bit of talk about WordPress news sites recently. WPMU has done a pretty good summary of the recent DradCast podcast episode hosted by WP Tavern‘s Jeff Chandler. It tells the story of Jeff’s journey running the Tavern and then selling it. I’m glad how it was sold is finally out in the open. I was knowledgable of the situation back then, and it’s good that it finally became known that Matt bought it, and that parties like Joost de Valk and WPCandy’s Ryan Imel were very, very close to purchasing the site. Openness is a good thing in this community.
However, I think Jeff and pretty much anyone else that says money can’t be made in WordPress news sites are completely wrong.
Brian Richards has launched a new project called 
