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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns both the NY Post and the Wall Street Journal, has been been put in the humiliating position of asking for a favor from his competitors. The Journal has been getting ready to launch a new edition in April, with an NYC metro section intended as a tough competitor to the Times. Meanwhile, Murdoch's News Corporation is upgrading the Post's printing plant in the South Bronx so that it can print the Journal and the Post. But there have been major delays on that, and now Murdoch needs to outsource some of The Post's printing, so he's been reduced to begging his enemies for help.

This article analyzes the positive and negative aspects of web 2.0 journalism.

Lawrence Journal-World is offering unemployed people in the area a 13-week subscription for just $1. "We want to ensure that residents experiencing difficult times are able to stay connected to the news and be aware of job opportunities and advertising specials published in the paper each day," said Chris Bell, Journal-World circulation director. Is this sincere?

Here's an update on AOL's citizen-journalism site, Seed. "In what he hopes will be the first big demonstration of the "crowdsourcing" potential of AOL's new Seed.com service, former New York Times writer Saul Hansell says he is looking for writers who will write up interviews with all of 2,000 or so bands and artists at the SXSW music festival in Austin. The assignment will involve "real reporting," Hansell said in an interview, in which writers will have to pick up the phone and call the band or artist and write up a 1,000-word interview in question-and-answer format, as well as a 300- to 500-word biography. The price for this assignment? The princely sum of $50."

Could this be the year online journalism really crashes the party at the Pulitzer Prizes? With entry deadlines having passed for the Pulitzers and many other contests, the prospect that Internet-based work might take home major awards is one of many questions on prize-watchers' minds. Initial indications are that both online-only and collaborative online-print projects will be stronger this year.

The Wall Street Journal will introduce a New York metro section in April, which will compete with the New York Times for advertising dollars.

Highlights an Anneberg School of Journalism study that examines rates of media subsidy, and shows a marked decline. References historical tradition of media subsidy through postal discounts and tax breaks.

David Simon, creator of the HBO series "The Wire", on achieving a new economic model for journalism.

The difficulties currently facing the news industry include formulating a comprehensive new business plan and competing economic models for online journalism.

AOL is developing a website that compiles user-generated news stories on important, hot-button issues like "The Best Twitter Backgrounds" and "The Top 6 Things Snuck into Space."

Rupert Murdoch is taking on the New York Times with a local edition of the Wall Street Journal that is stealing high profile advertisers along with it.

Might this be an alternative for investigative reporting for web 2.0? Or at least a first step.

Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, The Wall Street Journal reports.

"Media powerhouse News Corp is run by Rupert Murdoch. It owns - among other things -- Harper Collins, the \nWall Street Journal, 20th Century Fox, Hulu, MySpace and a host of other media outlets. Now News Corp and its MySpace CEO suddenly part ways. Why?"

Google is preparing to unveil a new social networking component for its Gmail Web service, according to reports published Monday. The service, The Wall Street Journal says, would add tweet-like status updates into the Gmail interf

Public hearings about media consolidation nearing the end of the Bush Regime in Seattle, Washington. The public was given rather short notice before the hearing, effectively preventing them to be an effective force in the hearings.

The Knight Foundations responds to shifting media industry economics by donating $2 million dollars to fund freedom on information act requests. While these requests are traditionally paid for by newspapers and news organizations, economic challenges facing the industry are undercutting traditional funding models.

A very small number of news organizations, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and Newsday, already charge online readers, each with a system developed largely in-house, and The New York Times announced recently that it planned to do the same. But with advertising plummeting, many other publishers eager for a new source of revenue are considering making the switch, despite the risk of losing audience and advertising.