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David Carr: 'United, newspapers may stand'

Magazine and newspaper editors have canceled their annual conferences (good idea: let’s not talk to one another). But perhaps someone can blow a secret whistle and the publishers and editors could all meet at an undisclosed location.

My fantasy meeting goes something like this: a rump caucus could form where the newspaper industry would decide to hold hands and jump off the following cliffs together on the following actions.

• No more free content.

• No more free ride to aggregators.

• No more commoditized ads.

• Throw out the Newspaper Preservation Act.

Read the full article in the New York Times

Alan D. Mutter: 'Save your paper? Read this'

The Daily Planet, which distributes some 23,000 free papers each week in Berkeley, Calif., ran an arresting front page three weeks ago to kick off a PBS-style pledge drive to help offset the $3 million in losses suffered by the local couple who bought the paper six years ago to save a major source of news about their community.

Read the full article at Reflections of a Newsosaur.

R.I.P., Rocky Mountain News

David Carr: 'Let's invent an iTunes for news'

AN ARGUMENT FOR MICROPAYMENTS

This article by David Carr, a business columnist for the New York Times, appeared on NYTimes.com and, presumably, inside the print pages, too:

"Those of us who are in the newspaper business could not be blamed for hoping that someone like [Steve Jobs] comes along and ruins our business as well by pulling the same trick: convincing the millions of interested readers who get their news every day free on newspapers sites that it’s time to pay up."

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Michael Kinsley: 'You can't sell news by the slice'

AN ARGUMENT AGAINST MICROPAYMENTS

This article by Michael Kinsley, the founding editor of Slate magazine, appeared on NYTimes.com and, presumably, inside the print pages of The New York Times:

"Just a few years ago, there was no sweeter perch in American capitalism than ownership of the only newspaper in town. Now, every English-language newspaper is in direct competition with every other.

"Millions of Americans get their news online from The Guardian, which is published in London. This competition, and not some kind of petulance or laziness or addled philosophy, is what keeps readers from shelling out for news."

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Walter Isaacson: 'How to Save Your Newspaper'

Walter Isaacson, former managing editor of Time magazine and former CEO of CNN, discusses his proposal to charge micro-payments for Internet news content on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."

Read the Time article by Isaacson here.

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Charlie Rose interview: Future of Newspapers

PBS interviewer Charlie Rose talks about the future of newspapers with Walter Isaacson, former managing editor of Time magazine and former CEO of CNN; Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal; and Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News and World Report magazine.