PC Magazine named it one of the “Top 100 Classic Web Sites” in August 2007, praising it for “pulling together some of the most interesting readings accessible on the Web today.”ĭenis Dutton died on December 28, 2010. The Chronicle of Higher Education bought it, along with “the assets of its parent firm, which published the journal Lingua Franca”, on October 25, 2002, and A&L Daily was brought back online.īy March 2005, the site had surpassed 2.5 million monthly page visits and was approaching its 100 millionth impression. Until October 7, 2002, when A&L Daily went offline, Dutton and Dung self-funded the site. Lingua Franca had declared bankruptcy by August, and A&L Daily had lost its only source of funding. The Webby Awards presented Arts and Letters Daily with a “People’s Voice Award” for Best News Website in April 2002. Despite the fact that Dutton and Dung had never met, they had exchanged emails.Īlso Read: Milesplit Kansas your destination for high school sports Awards and Milestone Lingua Franca finally took over as the proprietor.ĭutton appointed Tran Huu Dung, an economics professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, as managing editor of the website in 2000. Due to the site’s high prominence, numerous potential buyers competed for it, including online magazines Feed and Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lingua Franca. Three previous Phil-Lit subscribers, Sharon Killgrove of the Mojave Desert, Harrison Solow of Malibu, California, and Kenneth Chen, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, assisted Dutton in running the site.Īrts and Letters Daily generated a “sister site,” SciTechDaily, in 1998, which was maintained by Dutton’s friend Vicki Hyde, a science editor and novelist whose web company housed both sites.īy August 1999, A&L Daily had a monthly readership of 250,000 people and had received accolades from USA Today, Wired, and The Observer, which named it the world’s top website, ahead of The New York Times and.
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