Gordon Crovitz, Steven Brill and Leo Hindery are thinking big with Journalism Online, a site that seeks to serve as the ultimate gateway between publishers and news consumers. Seems like an old weapon for a modern battle, which is to find business models that support journalism in a highly decentralized, online world. Maybe it can get some traction with specialized business news, though that's basically what the WSJ does already.
Update: Jack Shafer points out in Slate that even if all publishers did join, the blogs would just subscribe, rewrite, claim fair use and sell ads.
Anything has to be better than the Washington Times approach: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/times-embraces-return-of-citizen-journalism/
Posted by: George | April 15, 2009 at 05:22 AM