Jan 02, 2013
As newspapers struggle to attract new readers and adopt new revenue streams, some are emulating daily deal sites like Groupon or LivingSocial and selling their own deals. Given the headwinds facing daily deals companies, have newspapers arrived too late to…
Dec 21, 2012
Journalists love to debate whether J school is worth its pretty penny. But lately the debate has shifted to what the schools should teach and how, perhaps a belated stipulation on the part of working journos that school enrollment and…
Dec 17, 2012
AOL Patch isn’t the only network of local news sites with grand ambitions, both financial and editorial. Josh Fenton’s GoLocal24, though far smaller in scale, has been stealthily (at least, if you’re not in Massachusetts or Rhode Island) growing its…
Dec 10, 2012
When the much-ballyhooed news app Cir.ca launched in October some reviewers predicted it would change the way we consume news. Others wrote less favorably about the company, which raised $750,000 in seed funding, and its (currently) free product. Cir.ca is…