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Faced with continued losses, the highly regarded online news publication is considering a sale or merger, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

It's official: Newspapers now trail the Internet as a source of news for Americans, according to the Pew Research Center. Of those polled, 34% said they had gone online for news the previous day, while 31% said they had read a newspaper. But it's not all bad news for newspapers.

With newspapers across the country struggling to pay expenses, pay-walls are going up at more and more of their web sites. These pay-walls require users to pay for online content that they've become accustomed to getting for free. As old institutions buckle down and attempt to restrict access, new...

The annual subscription for Honolulu Civil Beat is a pricey $240, attracting plenty of skeptics. But don't count it out yet -- Omidyar may have timed the bottom of the paid-content news market well. Watch this space for an indicator of where the news business is headed.

That The New York Times asks readers to sign in to access most of its online content has long been a point of contention in the wild open source range that is the internet. Not only should access to content be free, readers insist, but it should also be universal and require no privacy-violating...