My old boss Steve Brill is back in the journalism game after a successful run as founder and CEO of Clear, the airport security pre-screening company. If real journalism is going to survive, the industry has to figure out how to get people to pay for it again--newspapers are coughing up blood and yet there's more news and journalism available than ever before. This effort should be a serious shot at creating a subscription model for quality journalism, but will it be enough? Beyond news junkies, will the average citizen pay enough for content to offset the gap between print and online advertising revenues? We'll see....
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