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First Cramer’s Mad Money, then Fox Business and News Corp’s DJ/WSJ, now Slate Business… the business world will never be the same, or as dry. It makes a lot of sense given that most people now invest in the market, at least via 401k/IRAs, and global capitalism affects us all more each day.  Also consider how News has evolved.  I expect we’ll see more along these lines…

Writes the New York Observer:

Slate to Launch Business Site

The past year has seen the launch of the Fox Business Network and Condé Nast’s Portfolio. Now it looks like there could be another brand-new business journalism start-up to add to the list.

Slate—the irreverent online magazine that, since being launched by Michael Kinsley in 1996, has established itself as a fixture in the crowded landscape of opinion journalism—plans to start a separate site next year, devoted exclusively to business news and opinion.

Slate deputy editor David Plotz told The Observer he believes there’s a clear opening for Slate’s distinctive editorial voice. He argued that while political journalism has diversified with the arrival of blogs and other independent sites, business journalism is “still dominated by the big brands. We think there’s an opening for a really smart, analytical, opinionated Web site that could be Webby and fast and agile.” …