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“My job is basically as a very specialized editor,” says Ben Huh, a 1999 Medill grad who founded the Cheezburger Network in 2007. (It approached $4 million in revenue last year.) “I deal in the editoralization of user-submitted Internet content. So the ability to recognize good content from bad, to recognize what your audience wants, to understand timeliness, all of that came from J-school.” || North by Northwestern: “I can has Medill alum?”
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