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What media-industry developments and market forces will make headlines in the year to come? Pay-to-read online content, tablet computers, mom-and-pop newsrooms and, oh yes -- banks taking over the magazine and newspaper game.

An online media maven is urging Americans to switch banks, and she wants her crusade to go viral. On the Huffington Post website, founder Arianna Huffington introduces what she calls the "move your money" campaign. The idea is to get Americans -- all Americans -- to close their accounts at big...

It's getting awfully hard to talk about the news business without talking about the Huffington Post. And that's just the way Arianna Huffington likes it. Twelve months ago, it was just possible to dismiss the impact of the celebrity-infested aggregation-and-blogging site with a supposition: HuffPo...

A California woman who made a widely publicized YouTube video calling for a "Debtors Revolt" -- announcing she wouldn't be paying her credit card bills because her interest rates skyrocketed -- has a new video proclaiming a personal victory. Ann Minch, whose first video posted two weeks ago was...

Is it important to you to know what news articles your friends and acquaintances are looking at -- important enough that you're willing to have them know what articles you've been looking at? The Huffington Post thinks it is. This week, it unveiled a new application, HuffPost Social News, that uses...

Toan Lam, founder of GoInspireGo.com, recently wrote about Jorge Munoz, a bus driver who provides the homeless in his neighborhood in Queens, New York, with 120 to 140 meals every night. Over the past four years, Munoz and his family's personal outreach program has prepared an estimated 70,000...

I gave Arianna Huffington a pretty hard time yesterday for saying, in an interview with Kara Swisher of All Things D, that The Huffington Post doesn't pay its bloggers because they're "not really journalists" -- even though many of them are really journalists, and even though Huffington herself has...

Does Arianna Huffington think bloggers are journalists? The answer seems to change depending on what's most convenient for her at the moment. Kara Swisher at All Things D asked Huffington whether her news site, The Huffington Post, will face increased pressure to start paying its contributors as...

The Huffington Post is fond of calling itself "the internet newspaper." And it is like an increasing number of actual newspapers in one important regard: the direction of its cash flow. That would be out, not in. Yes, it turns out that, despite some early noises about crossing into the black --...

Credibility is nice, but revenue is nicer. That seems to be the unspoken message behind the Huffington Post's decision to replace its CEO, Betsy Morgan, after less than two years on the job. Paid Content reports that Huffpo's new CEO will be Eric Hippeau, a managing partner at Softbank Capital and...