Monthly Archives: February 2009

Two business models for newspapers

By Flavie | Published: February 15, 2009

The traditional newspaper is dying, and two recent opinion articles in the Guardian call for new business models to be implemented. Bruce Ackerman’s choice is for national endowments, that would be mainly targeted at investigative journalism, since “Each national endowment would subsidise investigations on a strict mathematical formula based on the number of citizens who actually [...]

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The generation gap

By Flavie | Published: February 11, 2009

I don’t think that we have ever experienced, at least in American history, a transformation of political opinion like the one we’ve seen in the past several years on the environment and climate. Young people understand that the world we’re talking about is the world they’re going to raise their kids in, that this isn’t [...]