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12 Mar

Hyper-local websites boom in 2009 as community newspapers fold

“Hyperlocal websites, both existing and those to launch will thrive as they become the only place to find community news; in 2009 community newspapers will fold in record numbers.”

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12 Mar

Layoffs at Manitoba newspapers

FP Newspapers Income Fund, majority owner of the Winnipeg Free Press and the Brandon Sun, announced it is cutting what amounts to 26 full-time positions. The restructuring at the paper […]

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12 Mar

What’s so hard about local?

“In the debate about the future of news production in a networked age,  the question of the moderately local (or rather, the question of the neither “big” nor “hyperlocal”) remains […]

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12 Mar

Lessons from Tampa about local news

“Media General’s Tampa news outlets have been leaders on the path towards integrated newsrooms for years. Now, as the financial situation at American newspapers weakens, the Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and […]

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12 Mar

Should newspapers get a government bailout?

“Various ideas to overhaul the business model of newspapers have been debated in recent weeks, such as the possibility of a return to paid online content, or a non-profit endowment […]

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12 Mar

What is going to happen to local newspapers as big ones struggle?

“The warnings and elegies for the big-city newspaper have been done to the point of exhaustion, and I don’t want to beat a breaking-down horse of a medium that I […]

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12 Mar

Better local content through hyperlinks

“A lot of research can go into a piece of reporting, and in print the value of that research can only be passed on through brief quotes or references. But […]

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12 Mar

Reframing citizen journalism and crowdsourcing news

“One reason mainstream news organizations haven’t embraced the concepts may be that the spirit (if not the letter) of the cit-j discussion tends to focus on the people involved rather […]

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12 Mar

What happens to advertising when newspapers stop printing

“With all the debate over the future of newspapers, here’s a question I haven’t heard anybody ask (much less answer): If a metropolitan newspaper suddenly ceased to publish, leaving the […]

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12 Mar

Understanding media value in the new economic context

“Entering 2009, the future of media is undoubtedly a quandary, with no end of head-scratching across the industry. As with everything these days, it seems that it all comes down […]

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