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Dear Corporate Newspaper, Paywalls Won’t Work.

June 13, 2010

I have a message for all of the corporate news organizations sitting in their ivory towers behind their mahogany desks:
Quit trying to convince people to pay money for content that you’ve been giving them for free for years! No one who is used to getting the news for free online is going to start giving [...]

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Can Local Newspapers Afford to Report in Real Time?

May 19, 2010

Or rather, can they afford not to? People in the digital world expect information to be delivered right away, as soon as events happen. But local news papers are too strapped for resources to make this happen. What’s the solution?
In order to deepen my understanding of the issues that we’re trying to tackle here at [...]

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Should Newspapers Ditch Google News?

May 9, 2010

I noticed a post on April 23rd on EditorsWebBlog.org about the struggle that newspaper websites are going through right now over whether or not to continue giving their content to Google for free. The author, Maria Conde, cites the internet consultant Arnon Mishkin, who is a major proponent of payed content, and who has been [...]

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