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Rumors of the Web’s death may be exaggerated

Wired's headline says the Web is dead, but that's a bit of an exaggeration.
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Journalism’s salvation is hiding in a mountain of data

Matthew Ingram writes at GigaOm that the newest defense of pay­walls for news­pa­per web­sites is to com­pare them to subscription-based ser­vices that have found great suc­cess, such as HBO or Sirius satel­lite radio. The par­tic­u­lar exam­ple Ingram notes comes from vet­eran tele­vi­sion host Peter Funt, writ­ing in the Wall Street Journal. Funt con­tends that peo­ple com­plain­ing [...]
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Limiting our Web site

I am in some­thing of a bind. My newspaper’s cor­po­rate own­ers want to reduce the num­ber of sto­ries that we put on the Web each day. I can under­stand their sur­face rea­son­ing. Why give it away when we offer a paid online alter­na­tive? (I do not think the paid online alter­na­tive is a qual­ity prod­uct for [...]
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Montreal Gazette to go Web-only on Sundays

On Aug. 8, the Montreal Gazette will stop publishing its Sunday edition and go Web-only for a day, publisher Alan Allnutt said in a statement on the paper's website.
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The do-nothing newspaper publishers

A small newspaper publisher says ignoring the Internet until somebody else figures it out is the answer. I think he's just plain wrong.
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