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    Hyperlocal coverage is key to journalism’s future

    “My dream is to have a citizen journalism group like this in every community,” he told me recently. “And a greater dream is that they would be linked. The web is such that there could be some really fascinating things done.”

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    Boston Globe as journalism guinea pig

    “In an article on the Boston Phoenix’s Web site last week, Adam Reilly argued that The New York Times Company should retain its money-hemorrhaging property, the Boston Globe, and use it “as a guinea pig—in the best possible sense of the term—for all the bold innovations it might be pondering for the Times, but isn’t…

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    A different perspective on the future of news

    This is a different analysis of journalism from a digital marketing expert. “A lot of the discussion around the future of journalism has to do with business models and money. But is there more to the discussion of business models than how to generate revenue? Is it possible that the product of journalism needs to…

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    J-schools play catch up

    Some journalism schools are adapting to the changing media world with major renovations to their curricula. They are updating their skills courses, teaching more multimedia journalism and offering courses to help the students become entrepreneurial. At one U.S. University, instead of studying the “business of journalism” and learning about the broken business model, students are now…

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    Another pay scheme for journalism online

    “Three media veterans plan to bundle the internet content of newspaper and magazine publishers into a subscription package that will test web surfers’ willingness to pay for material that has been given away for years.”

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    Newsprint producer files for bankruptcy

    AbitibiBowater, the world’s biggest newsprint producer, has filed for bankruptcy protection. It was only a matter of time ….  Reports by the Globe and Mail here, Bloomberg, Financial Post…