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1. February 14, 2011 06:11 PM

   AOL’s HuffPo Premium Doesn’t Mean Much For the NYT

   By Ryan Chittum

   Frederic Filloux has some harsh criticism of The Huffington Post's business model, calling it "a digital sandcastle." But what caught my eye was this at the bottom of his piece: What ailing AOL bought is vapor. About 35% of the HuffPo’s users come form Google. They land on cleverly optimized content: stories borrowed from other (and consenting) medias that mostly...

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2. May 10, 2011 10:30 AM

   Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News: A CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   Why is it that The New York Times has more than 30 million online readers and a weekday circulation of less than 900,000 newspapers, but those print papers account for more than 80 percent of the Times's revenue? If Americans spend 28 percent of their media-consuming time online, why does online media generate only 13 percent of ad spending? A...

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3. October 12, 2011 11:30 AM

   Defining “Fair Use” for the Digital Age

   Aufderheide and Jaszi on how to put the balance back in copyright

   By David Riedel

   Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put the Balance Back in Copyright | By Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi | University of Chicago Press | 216 pages, $17.00 Say you’re an aspiring documentary filmmaker and your subject of choice is the east coast-west coast hip-hop rivalry of the 1990s. It’s likely in your documentary that at some point you’ll focus on...

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4. May 20, 2011 12:24 PM

   How News Ombudsmen Can Make Themselves Essential

   Five easy tips for the modern ombud

   By Craig Silverman

   What do you tell a room filled with doomed journalists? When invited to deliver a keynote address at this year’s Organization of News Ombudsmen conference in Montreal, I found myself thinking about whether I should focus my remarks on helping them secure their survival in the new world of news. After all, the 2009 gathering in Washington included sessions such...

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5. June 21, 2011 11:50 AM

   iPad Magazines: Just a Little Bit of History Repeating

   Tablet news following a pattern as old as paper itself

   By Zachary Sniderman

   Last December, headlines decreed that the digital publishing world was falling apart. After an initial surge, iPad magazine sales were steadily—sometimes precipitously—dropping. According to a report that cited numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, November was a bad month for the iPad and iPad magazines. Vanity Fair went from an average 10,500 digital sales (August-October) down to 8,700. GQ...

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6. March 7, 2012 04:54 PM

   News Organizations That Haven’t Learned To Share

   The seams in certain outlets’ social sharing strategies

   By Justin D. Martin

   The Economist does not let users of its free app share news items via e-mail, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or anything else. An Economist representative told me over the phone that paid app users are permitted to share content, and that’s good, but the purpose of their free content is to lure payers, no? The Economist website allows users to share...

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7. March 1, 2011 01:06 PM

   Write It All Down!

   Why news entrepreneurs should keep a "startup journal"

   By Josh Kalven

   CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by Josh Kalven, founder of Newsbound, can be found here. In my previous columns here at the Launch Pad, I’ve described some of the impulses that propelled me down this entrepreneurial path. This week, I’m going to shift focus and highlight...

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