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Three Midwest newspaper associations -- Kansas, Missouri and Iowa -- are talking about forming a coordinated effort to manage piracy of their content on the web and have asked the retiring executive director of the Iowa Press Association, Bill Monroe, to look into the idea. A key part of the idea -- a for-profit corporation which would be owned by the nation's newspapers to coordinate the effort. | Three Midwest newspaper associations -- Kansas, Missouri and Iowa -- are talking about forming a coordinated effort to manage piracy of their content on the web and have asked the retiring executive director of the Iowa Press Association, Bill Monroe, to look into the idea. A key part of the idea -- a for-profit corporation which would be owned by the nation's newspapers to coordinate the effort. | ||
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Midwest press associations seek for-profit collaborative to monetize Internet content
(Wrapup for this page by Bill Densmore
Three Midwest newspaper associations -- Kansas, Missouri and Iowa -- are talking about forming a coordinated effort to manage piracy of their content on the web and have asked the retiring executive director of the Iowa Press Association, Bill Monroe, to look into the idea. A key part of the idea -- a for-profit corporation which would be owned by the nation's newspapers to coordinate the effort.
Also attending a meeting of 35 people on Monday at the Kansas City Star to talk about the idea were representatives from press associations in Pennsylvania and South Dakota. The three organizing state associations have formed a 10-member task force to begin looking at the question,a ccording to both Douglas Crews, director of the Missouri Press Association, and Doug Monroe, a retiring executive of the Iowa Press Association. At Monday's meeting, Monroe was put in charge of coordinating the initial efforts.
Those attending from Missouri, Crews said, included (with affiliations): Mark Maassen, The Kansas City Star; Brad Gentry, Houston Herald; Andy Waters, Columbia Daily Tribune; Jack Whitaker, Hannibal Courier-Post, representing GateHouse Media; Richard Gard, St. Louis Daily Record, representing American Court and Commercial Newspapers; Brad Buchanan, Scott Buchanan and Ian Buchanan, GeoTel, Columbia; Brian Steffens, National Newspaper Association, Columbia; and Doug Crews, Missouri Press Association, Columbia. Maassen, Gentry and Waters are Task Force members, representing MPA.
"For several months, a Multi-State Digital Task Force made up of publishers from Missouri, Kansas and Iowa have been discussing this idea," Crews wrote in an email. "The Nov. 20 Task Force meeting was a facilitated discussion where other newspaper organizations were invited to attend, observe and weigh in with their thoughts."
