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By Donal Brown Like the economy generally, the newspaper industry’s financial crisis deepens daily with reports of bankruptcies, layoffs and closings. The prospect that this downward spiral could leave the country, or large parts of it, without a vigorous press to uncover news of vital interest has fueled interest in alternative business models–notably including the model of nonprofit organizations. At a time when private investment capital is unavailable, the restructuring of newspapers and other media

Psst: Wanna buy Barack Obama’s email address? By Peter Scheer What would you pay to have President Obama’s new private (and secure) email address? Two weeks ago I wrote in this space about efforts by Barack Obama’s aides to get him to surrender his Blackberry, on which Obama had relied to escape the bubble that descends on leading presidential contenders, not to mention elected presidents. I argued that the aides’ concerns about legal and security