A longterm newspaper-public radio partnership, The LA Times joins the paywall club, and the search for sustainability even as Bob Garfield calls hyperlocals “doomed.”

<a href="http://nmj.thepattersonfoundation.org/?p=580" target="_blank">Funders and publishers explore the question: What does ‘sustainability’ really mean?</a>
INN and The Patterson Foundation sustainability workshop shows collaboration between funders and publishers may hold new possibilities for journalism.

<a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/480428-Pew_News_Organizations_Struggle_With_Digital_Dollars.php" target="_blank">Pew: News Organizations Struggle With Digital Dollars</a>
Drilling into a legacy media survival strategy, Pew explores how and why print and broadcasters have yet to get advertisers to join them online.

<a href="http://streetfightmag.com/2012/02/13/bob-garfield-hyperlocal-news-ventures-doomed/" target="_blank">NPR’s Bob Garfield: Hyperlocal News Ventures Doomed</a>
Advocating for “strategic relationships for content and revenue,” On The Media’s co-host says standalone hyperlocals just don’t “make for a sustainable business model.”

<a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/15/aol-patch/" target="_blank">AOL may never be able to patch up Patch</a>
Does “the savior of local news” need saving? CNN Money’s take on Patch three years after AOL began investing.

<a href="http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/leadership_blog/comments/20120123_10_types_of_projects_community_foundations_are_funding/" target="_blank">What news projects are community foundations funding?</a>
Wondering how to earn foundation support? Ten project types the Knight Challenge has invested in.

<a href="http://www.ncg.org/s_ncg/bin.asp?CID=18909&amp;DID=51626&amp;DOC=FILE.PDF" target="_blank">Online Journalism Enterprises: From Startup to Sustainability</a>
More than two dozen local news sites name the business skills they’d like to develop. Two-thirds say they’re at a crossroads for funding.

<a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-los-angeles-times-to-add-paywall/" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times to Add Paywall</a>
You’ll still get 15 stories a month for free. Will paywalls prove themselves this year? Big media players continue the gamble.

<a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/02/a-partnership-too-valuable-to-give-up-why-the-miami-herald-and-wlrn-are-sticking-together/" target="_blank">A partnership too valuable to give up: Why The Miami Herald and WLRN are sticking together</a>
Cross-media collaboration to mimic – planning ahead for the next market disruption.

<a href="http://adage.com/article/digital/washington-post-give-slate-ad-sales-force/232945/" target="_blank">Washington Post Co. Decides Slate All Grown Up, Needs Own Ad-Sales Force</a>
Will “moving beyond traditional display advertising…crafting more custom sponsorship packages...13 new employees and a dedicated sales force” deliver?

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