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Payment systems

Payment systems
Symptoms of underlying stress in journalism
In the winter 2004 Nieman Reports, John McManus tracks the rise and fall and recent rise of punditry in the news. He suggests that "some system of micro-payments for information, now provided for free, will have to arise as a younger generation gives up the paper on the stoop for the report on the Web. The 'bundling' strategy of the newspaper, with its smorgasbord of news, might be going the way of the general practitioner in medicine." Visit Website ]
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A-Business Models
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A-Citizen journalism
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A-Democracy Futures
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A-Education & Training
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A-Ethics and Standards
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A-First Amendment / Free Speech / Press
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A-Ideas-Trends-Innovation
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A-KEY ESSAYS
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A-KEY QUOTATIONS
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QUOTE: James Carroll on a free press and the communal self-awareness that makes democracy work
A-Multimedia & Video Innovation
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A-Ownership, governance & management
A new idea for newspaper ownership -- tap the reader co-op
FCC's alleged quashing of 2004 draft study which boosted local-TV ownership criticized by Sen. Boxer and media activists
A-Podcasting & Audio
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A-VERBATIM-Interview Q&As
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Broadcasting/ Low Power FM
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Cable Local Access (PEG)
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Community wireless
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Conferences / Events
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Entertainment Industry
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Internet-Privacy-Online
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Internet-Technology
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Music-Future
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Online News Services
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Regulation: FCC and the courts
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Research / Demographics
Trade group says newspaper circulation is rising worldwide
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Resources
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