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  • New York World Map

    Nov 19, 2012

    Is NY World proof that the ‘teaching hospital’ works?

    by Susan Johnston

    If 2012 is the year that newspapers pinned their hopes on paywalls, it’s also the year that journalism schools pinned theirs on the so-called “teaching hospital” model: employing their own students and recent alums in their newsrooms. The highest profile…

  • Village Voice

    Nov 05, 2012

    Voice Media Group CEO Scott Tobias talks future of alt-weekly chain

    by Sarah Erickson

    Six weeks ago the nation’s predominant chain of alternative weeklies split itself into two very different companies: a publisher of quirky local newspapers and an online classifieds site with an image problem involving prostitution and underage girls. If that wasn’t…

  • Daniel Maurer

    Oct 30, 2012

    With clock running out, East Village blog hopes

    by Tim Sohn

    The Local East Village blog was born on Sept. 13, 2010. It may well die still an infant at the end of this year, though a precocious one. Started as a partnership between New York University and The New York…