Business Models

**Update: Thanks to those who went out in the field with John Mattes. We are no longer offering the opportunity. We will keep you updated on new exciting opportunities that we provide and our NMR calendar is a great resource for getting out in the community and building your skills. Please look for our upcoming investigative reporting how-to film that offers many insights and tips into journalism and in-depth reporting techniques.

It's tough being a publisher these days.  Of course, no one is having much fun in the current economic downturn, but publishers were up against it even before the slowdown.  Circulations have been down across the board for years now, which in turn has slashed the advertising revenues that print publications have always relied upon to survive.  It's just a bad time to be publishing newspapers and magazines, at least while using the classical publishing business model.

Paul Klocko got a surprise in the mail in April: a letter on official stationary from Weston, Wisconsin administrator Dean Zuleger, demanding that Klocko stop posting comments on the web criticizing him.  The letter also asked that Klocko "come out from behind the cloak" and meet Zuleger in person.

Welcome to our Legal and How-to resource center.  We hope these guides will help you, the user/creator,  to learn about

• Rights and laws on the Internet
• How to use new technologies and social media in your own life