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Time Magazine has posted an article on different ways different media are approaching the “Pay or not?” conundrum clogging blogs, think tanks and newsroom board rooms everywhere.
Read it here — and give us your opinion: Are you willing to pay to get your news online? If not, do you care that you’ll have to read product placement, [...]

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You want to read the Michael Jackson’s Obituary that’ll run in tomorrow’s newspaper? Check Wikipedia.
Wikipedia: How Newspaper Obituaries are Written
Since learning of the news of Michael Jackson’s dead (from Laine’s Facebook status), I have been monitoring the Michael Jackson Wikipedia edit log. Based on the edit log, it looks as though Wikipedia had the cardiac [...]

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Comments TechCrunch: From Terrible To Terrifying: Newspaper Ad Sales Plummet $2.6 Billion In Q1 2009. Here it is in a nutshell…

Thanks to Grant from the The Guild of Scientific Troubadours for bringing this depressing news to our attention.

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Tribune, taken private last year by Sam Zell, may be considering bankruptcy according to a New York Times story.
Tribune gave its rank and file employees a fair amount of stock through profit sharing. That was great when the shares were trading at $70. As the stock fell into the $30s, our Tribune stock was just [...]

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Seth Godin tells us how the New York Times is Wasting its Brand and losing influence.
If you are a journalist who is moving from a full-time print job into the world of blogging, it is important to recognize that they too have a brand to protect and promote. Don’t make the same mistakes the New [...]

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