Kevin: Scott Rosenberg, former managing editor of US website Salon.com, on the effects of its 2001 paywall experiment

Kevin: Advertising Age's "continuing farewell to magazines that quit print under pressure from the recession and digital media."

Kevin: Philip John looks at a number of different models that could support hyperlocal journalism. There are a lot of ideas here. Some might seem strange to journalists and newspaper commercial departments, but it will take editorial and commercial creativity to build the new businesses that will support professional journalism in the 21st Century.

Kevin: John Temple writes: "My view is that he should go ahead and cut off Google if he wants. At a minimum, it'll be amusing to watch. But I doubt his content will be missed – unless he can create greater value and benefit for the user than he has today. The way to do that is to give people relevant content – information and advertising – that has real value. No easy task. I'm trying to wrestle with these issues – how to monetize content. And I know it's not easy. But I can't believe traditional news organizations will find success just by bashing Google and other search engines."