State of the Fourth Estate Morning Reading 8 13 09

Trying to clear the cache a little from a few days away. Likely missed something over the past few days, so please add any links that you feel are worth it in the comments:

• The News Americans Need [Washington Post; authored by Dan Rather]
• AOL, Yahoo find value in original online news; eyeing laid-off journalists [ZDnet via Simon Owens]
• How long should dead paper linger on web? [Newsosaur]
• Guardian joins NYT in mulling over members’ club [Online Journalism Blog]
• Why The Associated Press plans to hold some web content off the wire [Nieman Journalism Lab]
• Newspaper war raises a question: Who keeps the tweeps? [Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages]

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