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Mon 02 Feb 2009That's Fit to Print
MEDIA:AT A time when newspapers in the US have been folding at a relentless rate, Chicago-based entrepreneur Joshua Karp admits that many people thought his plans to set up a new newspaper were a little suspect. And when he explained what this newspaper would be made up of – content from online blogs – many people thought, and perhaps still think, that he is plain crazy.
The first issues of the Printed Blog went out in Chicago and San Francisco last week. Karp told The Irish Times that he started to think about some of the principles of blogs and working online, and applying those principles back to the newspaper industry.
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