{"id":10119,"date":"2014-02-09T22:23:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T06:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:06","slug":"newsweek-becomes-first-magazine-to-accept-bitcoin-pr-pitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/newsweek-becomes-first-magazine-to-accept-bitcoin-pr-pitches","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek Becomes First Magazine to Accept Bitcoin \u2026PR Pitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Zach Schonfeld \u2014 Newsweek<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-351568ec-0eb1-f3f5-cb74-e23f9d4088a1\">Spurred by a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=first%20to%20accept%20bitcoin&amp;tbm=nws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">host of recent converts<\/a> to the peer-to-peer digital currency, <em>Newsweek <\/em>has become the first magazine to accept Bitcoin PR pitches. The digital currency\u2019s visibility in popular retailers remains modest, but its presence in our email inboxes has frankly never been higher.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-351568ec-0eb1-f3f5-cb74-e23f9d4088a1\">If the volume of recent press releases is any indication, <\/span><em>Newsweek <\/em>will be shortly accompanied by the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/money\/interview-india-s-first-e-commerce-store-to-accept-bitcoin-only-as-a-payment-method-1959468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Indian e-Commerce store<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/1wgb6t\/first_swiss_dentist_accepts_bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Swiss dentist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/db0af2ca-8f29-11e3-be85-00144feab7de.html#axzz2sgKmN7Qj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">HFT service provider<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/student\/news\/cumbria-becomes-first-public-university-in-the-world-to-accept-bitcoin-in-tuition-fees-9074700.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">public university<\/a> to embrace the currency form.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/newsweek-becomes-first-magazine-accept-bitcoin-pitches-228533\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zach Schonfeld \u2014 Newsweek Spurred by a host of recent converts to the peer-to-peer digital currency, Newsweek has become the first magazine to accept Bitcoin PR pitches. The digital currency\u2019s visibility in popular retailers remains modest, but its presence in our email inboxes has frankly never been higher. If the volume of recent press [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47237,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions\/47237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}