links for 2006-10-27

“Free newspapers distributed to subway commuters are a major cause of subway track flooding, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority investigative task force has found.”

“PA has been trying to do this for five years. One of my former editors received a letter from PA encouraging him to sack me as long ago as 2001, but thankfully, it went straight in the bin …”

“It could take as long as 30 years for online revenue to represent at least 50% of a newspaper’s bottom line, according to a new report issued by Merrill Lynch”