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“That rarely works in community journalism,” writes journalism prof Bill Reader. He says he had early doubts about TBD “because it was essentially a high-tech, new-media attempt at a very old business model — the attempt of major urban media to pretend they can do small-town journalism.” || Read Steve Buttry‘s response and Reader’s latest post.
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