What newspapers need, ultimately, is a way to monetize the content they produce directly that isn’t dependent on distribution.

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While it’s encouraging to see that AP is at least thinking about the application layer of the online news equation, rather than simply the content layer, I don’t know that trying to recreate Google News, only with a more rigid and deterministic algorithm is really going to work.

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Making pay-TV content available for free online, according to Sapan, will ultimately undermine the dual-revenue stream model–advertising plus subscription fees–that he said is critical to creating high-quality programming.

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