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“There is a short-term market failure of courage”, says Esther Dyson of EDventure Holdings.
“The role of the news is not so much anymore to “tell people stuff, but to facilitate conversation”, says Sue Gardner of Wikimedia.
“Charging for the printed word printed on a paper”, says Dean Singleton about the business models, the CEO of MediaNews Group.

Quotes from the FOCAS conference in Aspen, Colorado, discussing business models for journalism.

Traffic. Crime. Marijuana clubs. Budget coverage in the City Hall meetings.
These all are topics in a news meeting on a Wednesday morning in the Public Press office in downtown San Francisco. Is there anything new in the topics?