{"id":2317,"date":"2006-05-02T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2006-05-02T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T07:00:57","slug":"modern_joint_op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Modern Joint Operating Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sf.backfence.com\/bayarea\/showPost.cfm?myComm=BA&#038;bid=2270\">Dan Gillmor looks at Hearst&#8217;s deal<\/a> with MediaNews Group to acquire four newspapers.   Madison has had one of these for years &#8211; a $120M annual arrangement that has kept the Cap Times going despite its very small circulation.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonblogs.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=joint+operating\">Joint operating agreements<\/a> were protected by congress years ago, as a way to &#8220;preserve daily newspapers&#8221;.   The time has long since arrived to eliminate this relic.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Zweifel passes along his experience at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/opinion\/column\/index.php?ntid=82393&amp;ntpid={TOP2_NTPI2}\">American Society of Newspaper Editors&#8217; convention recentl<\/a>y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gillmor looks at Hearst&#8217;s deal with MediaNews Group to acquire four newspapers. Madison has had one of these for years &#8211; a $120M annual arrangement that has kept the Cap Times going despite its very small circulation. Joint operating agreements were protected by congress years ago, as a way to &#8220;preserve daily newspapers&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}