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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel signs with Journalism Online

Journalism Online, the high-profile, if vaguely named, startup with a plan to charge for news on the Internet, says it has signed with media companies representing 176 daily newspapers. But it won’t say which ones.
On Thursday, PaidContent’s Staci Kramer reported she has “good reason to believe” that one of the companies is her corporate parent, [...]

4 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | August 18, 2009 | 8:30 am

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Spot.Us preps for expansion, learns lessons

The pioneer of crowdfunded journalism evaluates past mistakes and looks to grow; we talk with David Cohn

How the Guardian crowdsourced a scandal | Some programming chops and £50 put readers to work

Complete coverage: The Knight News Challenge 2009

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Reinventing classifieds: MinnPost tries “real-time advertising”

The Minnesota non-profit is trying to harness businesses’ use of social media

Why the NYT wants to plan your marathon training | The question: Could organizing a runner’s daily habits increase reader loyalty?

Inside five innovative newsrooms | Video tours of Talking Points Memo, Gawker Media, Daily Telegraph, more

“Google doesn’t kill newspapers. People kill newspapers.”

An interview with ex-newsman Michael Connelly, whose new mystery novel hinges on a layoff at The Los Angeles Times

Exclusive: Inside The New York Times’ R&D Lab

Our five-part video series looking at how the NYT is planning for e-readers, tablets, cell phones, and the living room.

The art of frame grabbing | How photographers are drawing great stills from video

Finding value in news archives — automatically

How Keith Hopper’s NPRbackstory uses an API to pull context from old stories — no humans involved

Mine Magazine: The perils of “customized” content

Why does Time Inc. think I like bobbleheads? And other mysteries of the magazine that’s “just for me.”

It is the east, but is that the Sun? | Is The New York Sun building a new life online?

A primer on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Lawyer Rob Bertsche asks how news organizations should think about their commenters

Joel Kramer: What I’ve learned from MinnPost

Lessons on commenters, staffing, and the difficulties of online advertising

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Yahoo sends traffic, but not dollars

How The Wichita Eagle became one of the nation's most visited papers overnight, but with little cash to show for it

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