All eyes on Little Rock for potential newspaper model

Andrew Clark meets a publisher who’s charging for online news | Media | The Observer .

FROM THE ARTICLE: But Walter Hussman of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has aroused the curiosity of press barons across the US and beyond. The 62-year-old newspaperman has refused to give ground in a battle between newsprint and digital media. He has stubbornly declined to give away journalism for free on the internet – and, as a result, his paper has prospered. (Thanks to an observant reader for noticing this.)

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