[NEWS] Five notes on journalism: E-books, communities, funding, history, future

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• That Microsoft's E-Book store is closing, depriving book owners of the their titles, is bad news for the online world. Global News reports.


• Motherboard notes how the decline of local news sources is hurting smaller communities and their residents.


• The Discourse explains how it, and other independent media, will be harmed by new government funding proposals.


• Marginal Revolution looks at a new book reviewing how providing global news in the early 20th century was a major and competitive industry.


• The Conversation sees some productive future approaches for science journalism, and perhaps journalism more generally.