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This site talks about how the newspaper will need to use the internet ant the web to survive. They have to figure out a way to keep readers interested. They also talk about people entering the newspaper industry who grew up with the internet. By hiring these people the industry will have a greater chance of survival.

Newspapers discovering new successful business models using innovation, rebranding, web consulting, and generating new revenue channels. 

Discusses the idea of a National Endowment for Journalism.

thought this was something we might want to use if we are going to refrence local papers

This is a website about Johannes Gutenberg. It just talks about his life and the background story of his life changing invention of the printing press.

This article gives us a possible outlook on the future of online newspaper websites. Video journalism is an emerging trend, and it provides greater economical benefits from its advertisements than regular web based ads. This can help move some forms of online news from paywalls to being "free to the public", since they make up for profits with advertisements.

This journal article is very descriptive of the turnaround from 6 cent papers to penny papers. It tells the story of Benjamin Day and how he changed past newspapers into the modern, mass media newspapers that we see today (whether print or web). Benjamin Day aimed at a cheaper newspaper with more content for New Yorker's alone, not just businessmen / politicians. In doing so, he also created a business model in which is still being used in some aspects today.

Founded by New York University graduate Phil Groman (who now joins NBC's digital team), theyet-to-launch web service Stringwire lets users stream content from phones. Per the official release from NBC, Stringwire was created as a service for news organizations to request video from a network of verified contributors with connected mobile devices capable of streaming video across the globe. The service is part of NBC News' strategy to create different methods of eyewitness accounts that can be immediately connected to the newsroom and distributed to the public.

a summary of the history of the telegraph and what impact it had on the different industries

The iPhone and Android have put a virtual newsroom-with writing, photo, video, Web research and communications capabilities-into our pockets. We gasp at the inexorable decline of the business models of once-mighty traditional media corporations, hollowing out newsrooms and throwing thousands of people out of once-secure jobs.