http://www.shanghaiist.com

Writer Dan Washburn, famous for his city blog, Shanghai Diaries, launched an even more ambitious blog last July; Shanghaiist. This website follows the ‘Gothamist’ concept: a series of highly-successful city blogs founded by Jake Dobkin in New York in 2002. Gothamist.com is one of New York City’s most popular independent websites, with 1.5 million pages viewed per month. It features daily posts about news, events, entertainment and food. London, Los Angeles, Toronto and Paris are among the eleven cities with “-ist” web-magazines. On the look out for whatever happens in Shanghai, a city Washburn clearly loves, it didn’t take him long to make the first “-ist” in Asia a very successful website. Six staff and twenty contributors are necessary to review Shanghai’s gossip, local and national papers, and up-to-date listings. Both Gothamist and Shanghaiist were named a ‘Forbes Favorite’ in Forbes magazine’s ongoing ’Best of the Web’ series.

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Chief editor: Steven Crane
October 2005 issue