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    Publish and Be Financially Independent

    It sounds like a mission impossible: set up a progressive publication, one which doesn’t shirk from flicking the comfortable and comforting the afflicted, and don’t worry if the money doesn’t immediately roll in. Robert Scheer, former columnist at the LA Times, sacked, he says, because of his opposition to the Iraq War, is trying to >>>

  • Print Loses To Pixels

    Spurred on by Google’s “clever new products”, Washington Post chairman Don Graham sees an electronic future ahead for news: This year for the first time I have come to believe that we will be able to tell you about certain subjects better on the Internet than we will be able to in print. – Don >>>

  • Journalism Blues

    It’s a real dark night of the soul for journalists. Feel their pain. The open season on media professionals shows no sign of stopping. Three o’clock in the morning and what’s up with journalists? Take these three takes: First, their business values make little sense, according to Huntley Paton, publisher of the Dallas Business Journal. >>>

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    Press Exchange

    At an in-house pow-wow last month looking at what’s next for the Guardian following its shrink from broadsheet to Berliner, editor Alan Rusbridger, chatting to blogger and Guardian Unlimited columnist Jeff Jarvis, downplayed the newspaper’s gleaming new printing presses. They may be the last presses we ever own. – Alan Rusbridger, Buzzmachine Way to go, >>>

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    Off Switch For Big Media

    It’s the beginning of the end of the big media monopoly, argues Robert X Cringely. The big media corporations may have succeeded in making copying illegal. But even Microsoft is starting to acknowledge that there’s been a total failure in stopping the growth of a culture of copying. Big media’s next step will be to >>>

  • Ready for My Shot

    Without copyright term extensions, old films wouldn’t get distributed, argues the entertainment industry. ‘Indiscriminate exploitation’ by public domain copyists would reduce the flow of cash to Big Media and hence the motivation Big Media needs to ‘publish’ films. – CS Monitor Intellectual property academics Lawrence Lessig and Jason Schultz say that’s so much baloney. Digging >>>