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	<title>Comments on: The Rise of Carrboro, the Fall of San Francisco</title>
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		<title>By: WillR</title>
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		<dc:creator>WillR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One comment from the ConvergeSouth keeps haunting me: &quot;newspapers don&#039;t invest in R&amp;D&quot;.  Well, there&#039;s lots of R&amp;D going on in the blog-o-sphere that could be re-used to drive news operations.  In this case, the modest investment needed is an open-mind and time to follow &#039;net trends.  Better than paying someone like me to retool your operation (though I&#039;m always happy to help at a reduced rate of $100/hr. ;-) ).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One comment from the ConvergeSouth keeps haunting me: &#8220;newspapers don&#8217;t invest in R&amp;D&#8221;.  Well, there&#8217;s lots of R&amp;D going on in the blog-o-sphere that could be re-used to drive news operations.  In this case, the modest investment needed is an open-mind and time to follow &#8216;net trends.  Better than paying someone like me to retool your operation (though I&#8217;m always happy to help at a reduced rate of $100/hr. <img src='http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  ).</p>
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		<title>By: Kirk Ross</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kirk Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No coincidence about the first issue/ first market/ first day of spring.
Thanks for pointing out the Winer piece:

Left him this comment:

While we’re seeing a whole new approach to print–one that uses the Web to drive the print product, the innovations that will make it work are not going to spring from inside institutions with all the deft of a supertanker. Instead, my guess is that a new type of newspaper/web model will come from/be inspired by a rebirth of small community weeklies.
The truth is, it’s not impossible or expensive to start a small newspaper and Web operation.
At the paper we just launched in Carrboro, we started off with the idea of making it sustainable. To us, that means supporting our staff body and soul; keeping it locally focused, full of community voices and a good read. The business model is a low-profit margin, a manageable page count and not trying to over expand and swallow up more territory. We just want to do what we do well.

One thing we’re trying is free in-town home delivery. We’re fortunate because Carrboro is pretty compact. We feel as a community paper we have to have it for people who can’t–for one reason or another–get out to pick one up. We also felt we couldn’t be sustainable if we just throw one in everyone’s driveway like a lot of small papers and shoppers do. I think a small, hyper-local urban paper could do well using this model.

Happy to talk with anyone about what we’ve learned,

Kirk Ross
Editor, The Carrboro Citizen</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No coincidence about the first issue/ first market/ first day of spring.<br />
Thanks for pointing out the Winer piece:</p>
<p>Left him this comment:</p>
<p>While we’re seeing a whole new approach to print–one that uses the Web to drive the print product, the innovations that will make it work are not going to spring from inside institutions with all the deft of a supertanker. Instead, my guess is that a new type of newspaper/web model will come from/be inspired by a rebirth of small community weeklies.<br />
The truth is, it’s not impossible or expensive to start a small newspaper and Web operation.<br />
At the paper we just launched in Carrboro, we started off with the idea of making it sustainable. To us, that means supporting our staff body and soul; keeping it locally focused, full of community voices and a good read. The business model is a low-profit margin, a manageable page count and not trying to over expand and swallow up more territory. We just want to do what we do well.</p>
<p>One thing we’re trying is free in-town home delivery. We’re fortunate because Carrboro is pretty compact. We feel as a community paper we have to have it for people who can’t–for one reason or another–get out to pick one up. We also felt we couldn’t be sustainable if we just throw one in everyone’s driveway like a lot of small papers and shoppers do. I think a small, hyper-local urban paper could do well using this model.</p>
<p>Happy to talk with anyone about what we’ve learned,</p>
<p>Kirk Ross<br />
Editor, The Carrboro Citizen</p>
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