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No Mug Shots on A1 of Your Local Paper*? BuyOneAnyway…

July 9, 2009

From SlateV, a new foundation to aide ailing newspapers and the (very gaunt) people behind them:

(*An update on how mug shot-funded journalism is working so far for The Anniston Star: a 28 percent increase in single copy sales on June 29th– see Robert Jackson’s comment to my post).

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.