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Arts & Culture
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Art Feature
May 14, 2018
Photojournalist Nancy Abrams looks back on her years in West Virginia in
The Climb From Salt Lick
It’s a great corrective to ugly caricatures of Appalachia.
By Dmitry Samarov
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Art Feature
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Nancy Abrams
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Climb From Salt Lick
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Rare Nest Gallery
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West Virginia
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Appalachia
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Preston County News
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Terra Alta
,
University of Missouri
,
photojournalism
,
Wild Horse Creek Valley
,
Keith Bringe
,
rural America
,
red states
,
Hillbilly Elegy
,
Bill Kuykendall
Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 3, 2017
Video
The hosts of WLUW’s Abstract Science reflect on the electronic music radio show’s 20-year history ahead of its thousandth episode
Four EDM lifers celebrate a milestone by taking over 88.7 FM for 20 consecutive hours.
By Leor Galil
Tags:
Music
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Chris Widman
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Henry Self
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Luke Stokes
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Joshua P. Ferguson
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Abstract Science
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WLUW
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Loyola University
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KCOU
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University of Missouri
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Time Out Chicago
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Smart Bar
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Abstract Sessions
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Kim Schlechter
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Colin Harris
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Quadratic
,
Video
Blogs
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Bleader
Jun 24, 2016
Is ESPN honoring a principled football team or should it mind its own business?
The continuing repercussions from the racial protests at Mizzou.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Education
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Media
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News
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Sports
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University of Missouri
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Meliss Click
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Mizzou football team
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ESPN
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American Association of University Professors
,
Stuart Scott ENSPIRE Award
,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
,
Columbia Tribune
Blogs
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Bleader
Feb 5, 2016
Missouri Republicans jump at the chance to despise Melissa Click
Eric Zorn sticks up for Mizzou professor Melissa Click.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
News
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Media
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Melissa Click
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Eric Zorn
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University of Missouri
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Missouri legislature
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Missouri Republicans
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Dean Dorhman
,
First Amendment
,
Freedom of Speech
Blogs
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Bleader
Jan 15, 2016
Football players—gladiators or crusaders?
The Missouri strike was the best thing that happened last year in football
By Michael Miner
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Education
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Media
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News
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Sports
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NFL
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Cincinnati-Pittsburgh game
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University of Missouri
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Northwestern University
,
striking football players
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unionizing football players
,
CTE
,
George Will
,
Ron Grossman
,
Chicago Tribune
,
trigger words
,
"no means no
,
" James Joyce
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 2, 2015
When First Amendment rights collide
Reconsidering freedom of the press and freedom of assembly as Chicago protesters ask for "black-only" space.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
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News
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Groucho Marx
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Darryl Holliday
,
City Bureau
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Laquan McDonald
,
Tim Tai
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University of Missouri
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Freedom of the Press
,
Freedom of Assembly
,
First Amendment
,
Sandy Davidson
,
Roxanne Gay
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 17, 2015
Who is a journalist, anyway? Mizzou raises the question.
Anyone can claim to be a journalist. But that's OK.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Education
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Media
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News
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University of Missouri
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safe spaces
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Melissa Click
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First Amendment
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Jonah Goldberg
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Mark Schierbecker
,
Tim Tai
,
the Maneater
,
Clarence Page
,
Chicago Tribune
,
New York Times
,
Roxane Gay
,
The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 13, 2015
Did Mizzou prof Melissa Click tarnish her cause?
A supposed expert in communications played a huge role in turning the media conversation away from the protesters' cause to their behavior.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
News
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Media
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Melissa Click
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University of Missouri
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Tim Tai
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Mark Schierbecker
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Eric Zorn
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Chicago Tribune
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New York Times
,
Jonah Goldberg
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Nicholas Kristof
,
Suzanne Nossel
,
PEN
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 10, 2015
Wayward Mizzou professor Melissa Click calls for 'muscle' to deal with cameraman
The J-school's faculty "are taking immediate action" to review Click's appointment, the school's dean said Tuesday.
By Michael Miner
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Education
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Media
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News
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Melissa Click
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University of Missouri
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Tim Wolfe
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R. Bowen Loftin
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Tim Tai
,
Mark Schierbecker
,
New York Times
,
heavy.com
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University of Missouri School of Journalism
,
ethics
,
#ConcernedStudent1950
,
David Karpius
Blogs
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Bleader
Aug 5, 2015
Party hearty, Illini, the title's only yours for a year
Princeton Review names Illinois the top party school.
By Michael Miner
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Education
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Media
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News
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Princeton Review
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University of Illinois
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Green Door
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Jim Lowe
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party schools
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Moneyball
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Bill James
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Billy Beane
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sabermetrics
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BroBible.com
,
University of Missouri
Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 28, 2015
A blogger explains why he gives his work away for free to HuffPo
dWriting for HuffPo, doing good, and making nothing
By Michael Miner
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Media
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News
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Huffington Post
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B. Howe
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Raina Bowe
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Carol Felsenthal
,
Chicago magazine
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University of Missouri
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Noah Michelson
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Gay Voices
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the Hill
,
Richard Babcock
,
Politico
Blogs
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Bleader
Sep 22, 2014
In football, colleges fatten calfs and the NFL sacrifices them
The strange life of an NFL player begins long before the pros
By Michael Miner
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Media
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Sports
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News
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NCAA
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NFL
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Jameis Winston
,
NCAA survey on "student-athlete experience
,
" Sean Coffey
,
University of Missouri
,
Nebraska-Miami football rivalry
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Kazuo Ishiguro
,
Never Let Me Go
,
Roger Ebert
,
Ray Rice
,
Adrian Peterson
Blogs
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Bleader
Feb 11, 2014
The death of Ron Dorfman
Ron Dorfman, a founder of the
Chicago Journalism Review
, dies.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
News
,
Ron Dorfman
,
Ken Ilio
,
Vicki Quade
,
gay marriage
,
Michael Sam
,
University of Missouri
,
Gary Pinkel
,
Faurot Field
,
Sydney Weisman
Columns & Opinion
,
On Media
Dec 17, 2013
The world according to the
Trib
's Rex Huppke
Facts matter to Huppke as they do to all reporters, but only Huppke has written their obituary.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Michael Miner on Media
,
Chicago Tribune
,
Rex Huppke
,
Bethlehem Star
,
newspapers
,
alt-weeklies
,
Associated Press
,
AP
,
Catherine Cornell
,
facts
,
Allen West
,
AJR
,
American Journalism Review
,
Obamacare
,
government shutdown
,
Ted Cruz
,
websites
,
Canada
,
columns
,
columnists
,
University of Chicago
,
journalism
,
Steven Colbert
,
truthiness
,
John Kass
,
University of Missouri
,
syndicated columns
Columns & Opinion
,
On Media
Oct 9, 2013
Marina Shifrin dances her way out of a job
But remains a member in good standing of the troupe of oddball media makers.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Michael Miner on Media
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Marina Shifrin
,
resignations
,
YouTube
,
viral videos
,
University of Missouri
,
journalism
,
journalists
,
The Kansas City Star
,
Garrison Keillor
,
The New Yorker
,
Tina Brown
,
George W.S. Trow
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blogs
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NMA
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Next Media Animation
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Cartoon Network
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Conan
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The Daily Show
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BBC
,
California job case
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headlines
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Rich Robertson
,
marinashifrin.com
,
Facebook
,
Mikaela Shiffrin
,
Lalo Shifrin
,
Queen Latifah
,
jobs
,
UPI
,
Richard Sudhalter
,
obituaries
,
tradition
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 26, 2013
Two universities operate drones and teach journalism students how to use them
As opposition grows to domestic surveillance by drones, two universities introduce them to journalism students anyway
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
News
,
drones
,
University of Nebraska
,
University of Missouri
,
journalism use of drones
,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
,
Troy Rule
,
State Senator Paul Schumacher
,
State Representative Casey Guernsey
,
ACLU
,
Professor Bill Allen
,
KBIA
,
Nebraska Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act
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Missouri Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act
,
KCTV5
Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 20, 2012
We are all Spartacus: Gary Pinkel defends Joe Paterno
Pinkel: "But don't take away all this guy did. And to sit here and blame him for all this I think is wrong.”
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Mudville
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Media
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Sports
,
News
,
Gary Pinkel
,
Joe Paterno
,
Jerry Sandusky
,
University of Missouri
,
Ancient Greece
,
Ancient Rome
,
Jerry Sandusky
,
Thebans
,
Vergil
,
Homer
,
Aeneid
,
Nisus and Euryalus
,
Achilles and Patroclus
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 5, 2012
Video
Trust me, academics used to be important at Missouri
Sean Coffey's story at Bob Costas's town hall on college sports suggests a fall of standards at the University of Missouri
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
Sports
,
News
,
Bob Costas's town hall on college sports
,
NBC
,
Sean Coffey
,
University of Missouri
,
Sports Illustrated
,
Angela Busch
,
Don Wainwright
,
Andy Russell
,
Kobe Bryant
,
Derrick Rose
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 18, 2012
Do you serendip into the news?
When will enough online serendipity become too much?
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
News Bites
,
Serendipity
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Borchuluun Yadamsuren
,
Sanda Erdelez
,
University of Missouri
,
Online journalism
,
Jannica Heinstrom
,
Information Research
Columns & Opinion
,
On Media
Jun 2, 2011
Is it safe to send your child to journalism school?
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Michael Miner on Media
,
journalism
,
education
,
Saigon
,
Mondragon, Spain
,
Vietnam
,
University of Missouri
,
Isabelle Roughol
,
New York Times
,
Arizona Republic
,
Michael McNamara
,
Figaro
,
Dawn Fallik
,
University of Delaware
,
Anne Keegan
,
Chicago Tribune
News & Politics
,
Media
Apr 14, 2011
Pitch Perfect
Finally, Mad Ave gets its own set of principles.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
advertising
,
ethics
,
University of Missouri
,
Mizzou
,
Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Northwestern University
,
Medill
,
Margaret Duffy
,
Volkswagon
News & Politics
,
Media
Jul 30, 2009
Good Journalism Good for the Journalism Business
University of Missouri researcher Esther Thorson says she's got the numbers to prove what every journalist knows.
By Michael Miner
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Media
,
Esther Thorson
,
University of Missouri
,
journalism
,
newspapers
,
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
,
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
,
Geneva Overholser
,
Tom Rosenstiel
,
Committee of Concerned Journalists
,
Charlie Wolf
,
Laura Frank
,
Expose
,
Rocky Mountain News
,
Morris Publishing Group
,
Billy Morris
,
Florida Union-Times
,
Frank Denton
,
Deadly Denial
,
The Withering Watchdog
,
investigative reporting
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 28, 2009
Paying for news online -- is this the beta model?
Introducing CircLabs Inc., a new Silicon Valley venture worked up at the Reynolds Journalism Institute to lure big-bucks advertising and a paying readership to online newspapers.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
News
,
News Bites
,
Associated Press
,
Dean Singleton
,
Reynolds Journalism Institute
,
CircLabs Inc.
,
Circulate
,
Bill Densmore
,
University of Missouri
,
Jeffrey Vander Clute
,
Information Valet
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