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• MinnPost: A Broadside of Next Wave Journalism?

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:13 am

  Tags: Advertising, Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, News Democracy, Crosscut, Dave Beal, David Cox, Doug Grow, Greg Patterson, Joel Kramer, John Camp, John Cowles, Kay Harvey, Kijiji, Knight Foundation, Lee

  and the Pacific Northwest's Crosscut, its strength will be building inside out with deep knowledge of its local readers and local businesses. So all that helps make this a great test of what emerges in the next wave of journalism. There's one other factor that makes it compellingly watch-able. While metro papers are reeling across the

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• Pro Publica, MinnPost Burst Out of the Box

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:34 pm

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, City Pages, Crosscut, Family Foundations, Joel Kramer, Martin Brown Foundation, Minnpost, Paul Steiger, Pegasus News, Pioneer Press, Pro Publica, Star Tribune, The P

  like the Northwest's Crosscut, Dallas' Pegasus News and Voice of San Diego. Most important is the passion. Behind each is a set of people who believe that there are sizable groups of readers hungry for good, independent journalism. That conviction then leads them to assemble -- one way or the other, to start -- experienced journalists,

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• ProPublica, MinnPost Burst Out of the Box

  Published: October 24, 2007, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, City Pages, Crosscut, Family Foundations, Joel Kramer, Martin Brown Foundation, Minnpost, Paul Steiger, Pegasus News, Pioneer Press, Pro Publica, Star Tribune, The P

  like the Northwest's Crosscut, Dallas' Pegasus News and Voice of San Diego. Most important is the passion. Behind each is a set of people who believe that there are sizable groups of readers hungry for good, independent journalism. That conviction then leads them to assemble -- one way or the other, to start -- experienced journalists,

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• O'Shea, Hutton Thrown From Speeding Rollercoaster

  Published: January 23, 2008, 2:28 am

  Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, Knight Ridder, News And Democracy, Tribune, California Newspaper Partnership, Carole Leigh Hutton, Crosscut, George Riggs, Huffpost, James O Shea, Jeff Johnson, John Carroll, L A Times, Medianews, Minnpost, New Haven Independent, Peg

  others, the tiny staffs of CrossCut, Pegasus, MinnPost, the New Haven Independent and VoiceofSanDiego -- and few pilot passengers with unannounced business plans. Two coasters. Uneven velocity. Treacherous track. And power supplies that can't be called uninterrupted. How many of the journalists jumping out of the descending coaster will

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• Charlie and Phil's Excellent Global Adventure

  Published: March 18, 2008, 1:47 pm

  Tags: Advertising, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, New York Times, Syndication, Video Tv, Yahoo, Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, Abc, Akamai, Amos Hostetter, Bbc, Benjamin Taylor, Boston Globe, Charles Sennott, Crosscut, Dallas Morning News, H D S Greenway, Joshua Hammer

  kin, MinnPost, PegasusNews, CrossCut, Voice of  San Diego, the New Haven Independent, VillageSoup and more. Their business models vary, from profit-seeking to non-profit, with differing views on advertising, sponsorship, membership and angel funding. But I'm beginning to believe their most important business model is one that's been sucked

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• My setnetting story is on Crosscut.com today!

  Published: July 17, 2008, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Setnetting, Salmon, Alaska, Crosscut Com, Fishing

  Here's the link.

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