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Steve Forbes, editor in chief of Forbes magazine and former Republican presidential candidate, was at the Paley Center for Media Tuesday afternoon to talk about the economy as part of Advertising Week. But what I really wanted to know is what he thinks of BusinessWeek. Why doesn't Forbes -- or just...

The evidence continues to pile up that this will be the year newspapers start charging you to access their digital content. The latest news: Journalism Online, the e-commerce start-up created to help publishers monetize their websites, now says that more than 1,000 publications, including both...

The conventional wisdom on whether and how newspapers ought to charge for their online content is changing so rapidly, some people are having trouble keeping up. One of those people is Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, who Monday repeated one of the favored fallacies of the...

A few weeks ago, I told you about Journalism Online, an e-commerce startup whose mission is to help newspaper companies and other content producers find the best ways to charge for their digital content. Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, two of Journalism Online's co-founders, told me they were...

Earlier today, I reported on my conversation with Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, two entrepreneurs who have captured the attention of the newspaper industry with Journalism Online, their new e-commerce company that proposes to help publishers charge for digital content while preserving ad revenue....

Hardly a day goes by without some piece of news about newspapers trying to devise fresh ways to get consumers to pay for all the free content they're currently pushing out over the web. Just last week, for instance, The New York Times asked subscribers if they'd pay $5 a month for website access,...

Watch your back, Amazon (AMZN). If Steve Brill and his partners get their way, you won't be able to strong-arm newspapers into accepting stingy revenue splits any longer. Brill, the founder of Court TV and American Lawyer, is the prime mover behind Journalism Online, a start-up formed earlier...

UPDATE Less than 24 hours after closing its service to move frequent travelers to the front of airport security lines, Clear announced on its Web site today that no, it won't be refunding any customers who bought $199 annual memberships.And for any of its 250,000 customers worried about having...

Everybody's always complaining about the lengthy wait through security at airports -- but some entrepreneurs have finally gone out and done something about it.There's Verified Identity Pass, which has been around since 2005, and the FLO card, which just came out last year.The idea is that if you...