"Newspapers are cockroaches. No matter what is introduced into the media ecosystem, the oldest of the Big Media survives..."

That's Business Week, spreading joy under a headline that says, "Net to Newspapers: Drop Dead."

The industrious folks at the blog called Paid Content pointed to that story today, along with five other recent articles about newspapers and their hope that online editions can draw dollars as well as readers.

The most optimistic view is from a Washington Post staffer writing in American Journalism Review, in an issue that also includes a "Dotcom Bloom" story about online news and "citizen journalism" sites.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, OhmyNews International reports on its multinational gathering of Korean "citizen reporters" and counterparts from as far away as Iran, Germany, Brazil and Chile. Reporters from 20 countries attended.

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