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Topix Editor

Mar 26, 2008

Passion fuels entrepreneurial journalism

The biggest challenge facing the journalism industry today is not declining readership, the economy or even the Internet – it is the increased competition that the Internet has made possible.

People are reading, offline and on. People continue to demand information about the communities and their world. Despite the crashing housing market and turmoil in credit markets, billions of dollars are flowing through the American advertising and media industries. (See OJR's link last week to the latest Pew Report on the state of the news media for support for those statements.) Continue reading...

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