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52 Sandler, Craig, telephone interview with author, Jan. 13, 2009.
53 “Nonprofit Connecticut Mirror Targets Gaps in Political Coverage and Data,” Bill Mitchell, Jan.
25, 2010, Poynter Online, http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=131&aid=176435
54 “Will paid content work? Two cautionary tales from 2004?” Tim Windsor, Nieman Journalism
Lab, Feb. 10, 2009, http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/02/will‐paid‐content‐work‐two‐cautionary‐
tales‐from‐2004/
55 “Newsday Said It Wasn’t Putting up a Paywall to Sell Online Subscriptions – and It Isn’t,” Staci
D. Kramer, PaidContent, Jan. 26, 2010, http://paidcontent.org/article/419‐newsday‐said‐it‐wasnt‐
putting‐up‐a‐paywall‐to‐sell‐online‐subscriptions/. See also “Newsday exec: We don’t measure
success by how many people sign up to pay $260 a year for our website,” Romenesko Memos,
Jan. 28, 2010, Poynter Online, http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=176825
56 “Newsday to Listen to Feedback on Paid Model,” Joe Strupp, Editor & Publisher, Oct. 22, 2009
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004029591
57 “Pay Wall Drives Newsday Traffic Down, Paper Says According to Plan,” David Goetzel,
MediaDailyNews, Dec. 10, 2009,
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=118960
58 Shine, Jim, telephone interview with author, Dec. 23, 2009
59 American Press Institute, “Profiles of Newspapers Charging for Online Content,” October 2009
60 “How to Sink a Newspaper,” Walter Hussman, The Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2007,
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010038
61 API study, “Profiles of Newspapers Charging for Online Content,” October 2009
62 Banyan Project, Co‐op ownership, http://banyanproject.com/index.php?title=Co‐
op_Ownership. Disclosure: I’m among more than two dozen unpaid advisors to the Banyan
Project (listed in left rail of site).
63 Stites, Tom, e‐mail to author, Jan. 22, 2010.
64 Shribman, David, interview with author cited above.
65 “Brill: Paid Content Debate Now about How, not If,” Bill Mitchell, Poynter Online, Aug. 3,
2009, based on telephone interview
66 “An Introduction to Journalism Online,”
http://www.journalismonline.com/media/Journalism_Online_Introduction.pdf
67 “Google and paid content,” Jeff Cohen, Dec. 1, 2009
http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/update‐to‐first‐click‐free.html
68 “Thinking about a paywall? Read this first,” Steve Yelvington, Yelvington.com, Dec. 1, 2009
69 Auletta, Ken. Googled, 2009.
70 Picard, Robert G., cited above.
71 Hirsch, Rick telephone interview with Julia Kamin, Nov. 5, 2009.
72 Catone, Josh, “Why NPR is the Future of Mainstream Media,” Mashable, June 3, 2009,
http://mashable.com/2009/06/03/npr/. See also comments for discussion of NPR funding sources.
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