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Their wordsThere is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.
Their wordsNow is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments, each of which will seem as minor at launch as craigslist did, as Wikipedia did, as octavo volumes did.
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Their wordsJournalism has always been subsidized.
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Their wordsSociety doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.
Their wordsFor the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases. Many of these models will rely on amateurs as researchers and writers.
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