In which I recommend that you take a spin through the recent entries at obitresearch.com, the class blog from Medill's fall Interactive Innovation Project. They're not just about death.
Owen Youngman
In which the continuing search for news business models takes stock of itself at Harvard, yielding a couple hundred tweets, a couple dozen sound bites, a couple good jokes, and a crying need to be single-mindedly focused on learning what audiences actually value.
Looking for business models? Mind the gaps
1 In which Richard Rodriguez again links the withering of the SF Chronicle with the withering of San Francisco -- and in so doing points to why the NYT has good reasons to contract with others for metro news both there and in Chicago. (Go buy the November Harper's.)