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This from the Business Insider:
AOL made 900 hires over the summer with 50% of the new people going to local blogs network Patch, CEO Tim Armstrong just told employees in a company wide meeting.
Figure all-in costs for each new employee is $100,000 per year, and AOL is set to spend $45 million per year [...]

Our Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta is trying an experiment in niche journalism. Our Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE.org) is the only journalism entity in Georgia reporting on juvenile justice issues daily and persistently. We owe it to the 20,000 kids, the families and employees touched by the system [...]

Maybe the only group of people left to support high quality journalism is the public radio crowd. See this from MinnPost’s fundraiser:

I will try to find the back story on this ad campaign, but I remember this from a couple of years ago in a Star Tribune story:

MinnPost.com, the local start-up that bills [...]

This from the Pew Internet & American Life Project:
While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled-from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May [...]

I was asked to give a guest lecture the other day and I was combing through some old notes when I came across the quote below from Yochia Benkler. He was arguing that when all information is considered a public good and when the technological costs of producing it drop to almost nothing,
“the [...]