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Matthew Ingram’s story at GigaOM  shows how the media giant acquiring the Reddit online community made the purchase a success by not attempting to integrate Reddit with the rest of its business.

The lesson is clear, leave a decent online operation alone and let it carry on doing what it is good at. Fairfax followed this script when it purchased TradeMe.

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• What newspapers and other media could learn from Reddit (gigaom.com)
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• Here’s How Reddit Survived And Thrived (businessinsider.com)