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Rafat Ali
Editor/Publisher, Paid Content
Ali is editor and publisher of paidContent.org, a digital media business news and analysis site that won the European Online Journalism Award for 2003, and the Find/SVP's Best of Business Web Award for 2003. He is also the editor of Moco.News, a news site devoted to mobile content.
Both of these sites form part of ContentNext, an independent media and information company covering the business of digital media.
Prior to this, Rafat was managing editor of Manhattan-based Silicon Alley Reporter," where he covered the Internet and tech sectors.
In 2003, Editor & Publisher referred to Ali as, "journalism's poster boy for career independence from news companies," and CBS MarketWatch called him "a pioneer in using the Web for an almost real-time business news feed."
He was the Knight Foundation Fellow in 1999-2000 at Indiana University, and has recently moved from London to Los Angeles.