Leo Hindery funds Journalism Online with Brill, Crovitz

The trio offers a business model that may help newspapers by charging readers:

• "Plans call for Journalism Online to be in the market with at least one e-commerce product by the fall; options include an all-you-can-read solution. They hope to work with newspapers, magazine, online-only publishers—in other words, anyone looking for a way to
• make money with news online.

• Crovitz said they have already held discussions with a number of publishers. Those conversations have included issues like what kind of e-commerce platforms they want to have, what they are willing to charge.

(The company has since posted a detailed press release.)"...

• (Hindery among many other things was founding CEO of the YES Network and a recent Chicago Cubs bidder). via Poynter.org/Romenesko

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