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time.com - 2/5/2009

How to Save Your Newspaper

— time.com — During the past few months , the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now... possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations will employ no more ... (more) How to Save Your Newspaper

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time.com - 2/6/2009

Time.com: How to Save Your Newspaper

— time.com — During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible... to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations will employ no more ... (more) Time.com: How to Save Your Newspaper

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What to do with the Newspaper?
Matthew Yglesias — ... Walter Isaacson has a piece in Time that talks about a micropayment system that could “save” newspapers. Overall, I don’t think that Isaacson’s proposition is that bad — he acknowledges that paying for a subscription every time you click on a link is annoying and untenable. Instead, he longs to place the payment burden back on the consumer, albeit a relatively minor one. He proposes paying a nickel for one article, ten cents for a whole day’s ...

Too Late
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Walter Isaacson: The key to attracting online revenue, I think, is to come up with an iTunes-easy method of micropayment. We need something like digital coins or an E-ZPass digital wallet — a one-click system with a really simple interface that will permit impulse purchases of a newspaper, magazine, article, blog or video for a penny, nickel, dime or whatever the creator chooses to charge. I remember fantasizing about this several years ago. But it's is not going to work for the reasons Felix Salmon cites and because there is too ...

A terrifying way to start the week
This Modern World — If you work in print media, at least: read Walter Isaacson’s cover story in Time Magazine, “ How to Save Your Newspaper .” See, it’s the cover story in Time Magazine ., written by the former managing editor of Time. And after a fairly promising start summarizing the importance of journalism and how we got into this mess, the solution proferred is, essentially, that somebody should figure out a way to make micropayments work. To put it another way, Time magazine’s cover story solution to the crisis in journalism: somebody should do something! This is not an industry in ...

Penny a Click (con’t)
HorsesAss.Org — ... Kinsley’s piece apparently is in reaction to Walter Isaacson’s TIME endorsement of “micro-payments” for news content. (By the way, how can The New York Times or Kinsley for that matter justify not linking to a piece explicitly referred to in Kinsley’s article? I mean, just what is going on here? Arrogance? It has to be intentional, coming at a time when The Times is getting lots of attention for Web innovation.) Many other new contributions to the debate we ...