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There is a bit of a dust-up at Jeff Jarvis’s Buzzmachine about GateHouse suing Boston.com over its linking to GateHouse stories. Of course, this is a suit worth watching and discussing because if GateHouse wins, it would have major ramifications across the web.
Most of what is  being written at the Buzzmachine post is that the [...]

BusinessWeek.com highlights both Spot.us and Representative Journalism in an online feature aimed at describing alternative business models to underwrite quality journalism.
Here is what reporter Douglas MacMillan wrote about Rep J and its Locally Grown project in Northfield, Minnesota:
Rather than sponsoring a story, what if you allowed readers to sponsor a reporter? In July, the rural [...]

Ever since I finished reading Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody, I have been dropping his name a lot. Now the CJR does a long Q&A with him, which is a must read, but if you can’t read it all, be sure to go to Part II and read his thoughts on for-profit papers taking [...]

Last week it was Spain today Representative Journalism gets attention in the United Kingdom, via Journalism.co.uk, the go-to website for journalists in the UK. Here are couple of highlights from the Q&A done with me:
As mass journalism markets un-bundle and become niche markets, news operations – if they are to survive – will have to [...]

This from Aldon Hynes at his blog:
As the first snow of the year started coming down here in Connecticut, word slowly leaked out that the Journal Register Co. has shut sixteen of its weeklies in Connecticut and laid off twenty-one reporters and editors. These are different papers than the eleven weeklies and two dailies [...]