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Archives for November 14, 2008

November 14, 2008 By Michelle V. Rafter

As optimists tell, it's a great time to get into journalism

Most of the news coming out of the newspaper business is glum, worse than glum actually. Lay offs. Shrinking ad pages. Financial instability. Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service recently dropped their rating of New York Times debt because of the paper’s declining revenues. Imagine that, the Grey Lady a junk bond. But not […]

Filed Under: Newspapers, Online news Tagged With: Dave Cohn, DigiDave, Environmental Health News, FieldReport.com, future of news, NewspaperDeathWatch, Paul Gillin, ProPublica, Publishing 2.0, Scott Karp, Spot.us, why it's a good time to get into journalism

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