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Dear John,
I second the kudos!
To: "Journalism That Matters" <jtmlist@googlegroups.com>
Congratulations, John.

Congratulations, John.

This is an old story -- from August of 2009 -- but I just ran across and and wanted to archive it into the Journalism That Matters Google Groups. And if you haven't ever watched Sonya Doctorian's video -- it's well worth seven minutes of your time.
Gatehouse Media sold Silverton, Colo., weekly, circulation 1,000, to an independent owner who lived in Telluride, who couldn't afford to maintain it. He donated it to the Silverton Historical Society. This video tells the story in a stunningly framed, seven-minute piece:

Dear JTMers --
You might be interested in this: [link]
articles/537849.php
This idea began at the JTM gathering in Washington, D.C., two years ago.
We've still got some questions to answer about how it will work, but
if anyone wants to start using it, let me know.
No charge to the first 10 people/organizations who take the "TAO

An interesting story at MPR about local newspapers in Minnesota:
[link]
Ross Williams
Advocacy Technologies

For those of you following the FTC journalism workshops I have gathered a bunch of notes from the speakers here:
[link]
And also include links to PDFs of many of the presentations. Stay tuned for more at SaveTheNews.org.
Best,
Josh
Josh Stearns
Program Manager
Free Press :: [link]

All,
It was quite interesting to read this conversation. Mostly because the focus seems a bit skewed and off track. Not the first time I see this though. The paywall is most definitely focused on the struggling business model for online news outlets. If you look at some real numbers here for advertising the most struggling fact for online advertising for NEWS media. The main aspects there are lack of page views, few page views per session and poor CPM. I will not here go into the reasons for that as it is a completely separate topic yet very interesting.

"In fact, they have raised the paywall on print much more in the last few
years"
If by "paywall" you mean the subscription price, that is largely because the
cost of newsprint and distribution went up. In fact, I don't think the
increased price has actually covered those cost increases. In other words,

Hi Tanja -
You might want to get in touch with David Duncan Ewing over at the Fiscal
Times. He's writing a five-part series on end-of-life care:
[link]
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Caitlin

We're just going to disagree on this.
There's nothing in the public record indicating that the Times paywall is
motivated by a desire to stem the drift from print to Web. In fact, they
have raised the paywall on print much more in the last few years, which is
in line with my point about print becoming a niche product.

"But if that were driving the thinking at the Times, the paywall would go up
a lot sooner and be a lot less porous. "
Why? If they wanted to abandon the digital business entirely they could just
shut down their website. But they would be leaving significant revenue on
the table. On the other hand, they don't appear to be worried about people

Hi all,
I'm looking for journalists that are covering aging/elderly care to be
interviewed for my study about innovation journalism. Aging doesn't need to
be the journalist's regular beat - it is enough that the journalist covers
that topic every now and then.
If you know journalists that match the description, please send them to my

*Ross: The New York Times paywall description sounds like it is designed to
solve that problem by preventing people from using the web site in lieu of
subscribing to the newspaper,"*
*
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*Martin: I doubt if anyone at the Times would agree with that.*
*
Ross: I doubt anyone at the Times would disagree with it. In fact,

"I doubt if anyone at the Times would agree with that."
I doubt anyone at the Times would disagree with it. In fact, cannabilization
of subscribers has been a major concern for newspapers. Our local newspaper
charges more for digital access than for receiving the newspaper with free
digital access. The reason for that is obvious, print subscribers are still

Journalists have no choice but to burn the boats. In fact, the boats
have been burned to ashes without any of them having to strike a
match. Working journalists are out of the picture, at the corporate
level they don't get to design or build boats, or any new vehicles for
their work, unless they've ascended the hierarchy; and in order to do

*"The New York Times paywall description sounds like it is designed to solve
that problem by preventing people from using the web site in lieu of
subscribing to the newspaper,"*
I doubt if anyone at the Times would agree with that. Did Verizon and AT&T
price their cellphone plans so as to keep customers on their more profitable

" is it a good idea to keep print advertising separate from online
advertising?"
No more than it is a good idea to keep print advertising separate from TV,
radio, direct mail or any other form of advertising. One reason newspapers
have web sites is that they generate more advertising revenue than the

The RJI's Digital Publishing Alliance, headed by eReader/iPad researcher
Roger Fidler, wraps up its spring symposium this morning at the Missouri
School of Journalism and there's talk of forming a consortium which would
allow news organizations to recommend tablet-device standards to
manufacturers and tecnology companies. Chief concern expressed in

I'm curious about what others on this list think.
Are newspapers in the print advertising business? Or are they really in
some other business?
Is the print advertising business highly profitable? Will it continue to be
so for a very long time?
Perhaps most importantly, is it a good idea to keep print advertising

Howdy! JOURNALISM INNOVATIONS III is coming up Apr. 30-May 2. The
event will again take place on the verdant University of San Francisco
campus, and will feature great people, big ideas, interesting
organizations, film screenings, and events for journalists, students
and the general public. See below for conference producer Kwan Booth's